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The EADD Windows Technical Gibberings Thread

Changing things like passphrases / keys too frequently introduces a load more risks, its a bad idea.

Rainbow Series old, but freely available reading for the paranoid.
 
badandwicked said:
I need help please clever people, I know very little about computers.

I'm not trying be all YPDH, but I think someones monitoring my computer from a distance. Its a member of the family I don't get on with, they are shit hot at computers (its their job), they came to stay a while back and asked to borrow my computer when I had to go out.

Since then there's been too many real life co-incidences to list, and I know he did this to an ex girlfriend so its clearly not beyond him.

If I took it to one of these local computer help people that advertise or even PC world would they be able to check for any installed spy programme? Or would a full system restore just get rid of anything? I'm more curious to find out if there is anything & when it was installed.

Thanks in advance for any advice peeps.
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ouch! I feel really embarrassed by that... Unnecessarily belittling ..is there a problem?

******

Its me JessHalo/Yella..Ayup. I'm not attempting a sneaky alias.. i've just lost all my bloody passwords again. Bloody nightmare.
I've missed you nutty lot <3:)
 
doorknob said:
Aye, i accept bad sectors are a weak point, but realistically what are you going to get? i think you'd have to be very lucky to ever gain anything useful from it, few file headers maybe? guess you've heard of the great 0 challenge... nobody won. Say there was still sensitive info left on the platter thad was deemed unusable from the drive, how would this be recovered? my old harddrive was fucked, full of bad sectors. overwrote it with 0's and a hex editor showed 0 all the way through. is the hex editor just ignoring the bad sectors? neither encase nor FTK could get fuck all from the drive image.
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I have discussed this with Ceres before. However unknown doses of NBOMe series chemicals and almost continuous dissociation would appear to have FUCKED WITH HIS MIND! :D
 
knock said:
doorknob said:
Aye, i accept bad sectors are a weak point, but realistically what are you going to get? i think you'd have to be very lucky to ever gain anything useful from it, few file headers maybe? guess you've heard of the great 0 challenge... nobody won. Say there was still sensitive info left on the platter thad was deemed unusable from the drive, how would this be recovered? my old harddrive was fucked, full of bad sectors. overwrote it with 0's and a hex editor showed 0 all the way through. is the hex editor just ignoring the bad sectors? neither encase nor FTK could get fuck all from the drive image.
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I have discussed this with Ceres before. However unknown doses of NBOMe series chemicals and almost continuous dissociation would appear to have FUCKED WITH HIS MIND! :D
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No you haven't.
 
Hmmm. Maybe it's my mind that's been fucked in such a fashion then ;) I'll see if I can get a doctor's appointment.
 
knock said:
Hmmm. Maybe it's my mind that's been fucked in such a fashion then ;) I'll see if I can get a doctor's appointment.
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might be wise, perhaps you're thinking of a thread the other week where we were talking about data remanance in volatile memory? AFAIK we didn't touch on the problem of zeroing harddrives.

doorknob said:
my old harddrive was fucked, full of bad sectors. overwrote it with 0's and a hex editor showed 0 all the way through. is the hex editor just ignoring the bad sectors? neither encase nor FTK could get fuck all from the drive image.
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Another problem is that the heads themselves gradually go out of alignment, so even if there are no bad sectors, it's physically impossible for you to completely zero data which the head isn't even capable of writing to. Obviously though, you can't recover that offset data by attempting to read it with the same misaligned heads, so takes a bit more effort

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anyway, the point is that most people who are quick to suggest a livecd and a powercycle is the answer to your security problems, don't seem to even be aware of the physical properties and associated risks inherent in even the basic hardware they are using, (and interestingly would rather believe they don't exist even when shown the facts). So why on earth anyone would take their advice on the even more complex security issues presented by the software running on that hardware, the person operating it, the physical environment around it, interactions with other hardware (intentional and unintentional), interactions with the internet, etc that make up the wider context that the question of 'security' sits in?

nah, on the other hand, much easier to stick with the far simpler answers provided by blind faith and good old denial of the facts.
 
Ceres said:
might be wise, perhaps you're thinking of a thread the other week where we were talking about data remanance in volatile memory? AFAIK we didn't touch on the problem of zeroing harddrives.
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Yup I do believe you're right, we were not talking about hard disks. My apologies. :o
 
heheh. Right, time for some dissociatives, as apparently I've got some undamaged bits of brain left.
 
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NERDWAR!

I guess that if anyone REALLY wants to know what you're up to they'll find a way. It's possible to work out what's on a screen from some distance away, through several walls etc using cheap gear to read electromagnetic signals. It's apparently even possible to monitor keystrokes from a distance in a similar fashion.
 
Yes, know thy enemy, know what thy enemy is likely to be up to, do things in such a way that thy enemy isn't likely to find out about them. It's a game of probabilities, not absolutes.

Of course the more risky your venture, the more you might be concerned about tiny probablities...

Not that I'm doing anything!
 
I think a lot of the time it's 'know that your 'enemy' will always have bigger fish to fry and a limited budget for oil and gas'.
 
knock said:
Yes, know thy enemy, know what thy enemy is likely to be up to, do things in such a way that thy enemy isn't likely to find out about them. It's a game of probabilities, not absolutes.

Of course the more risky your venture, the more you might be concerned about tiny probablities...

Not that I'm doing anything!
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It's always the ones with a friendly manner and charming smile that are up to no good. :D
 
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jancrow said:
I think a lot of the time it's 'know that your 'enemy' will always have bigger fish to fry and a limited budget for oil and gas'.
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I was thinking about typing something along those lines but my poor little fingers needed a rest ;) No really I was!
 
Ceres said:
mm kate libby. Then a few years later hacking in films had reached this level of awesome. Thank fuck the rollerblades didn't catch on though.
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Please don't tell me that isn't what hacking looks like. Cos it clearly does. It must do. Films and tellybox have always made it very clear that hacking means randomly hitting keys whilst lists of "things" flash and scroll and big flashing popups say "ACCESS DENIED" until the music reaches a crescendo and it says "ACCESS GRANTED". Usually with a countdown of some description stopping at 00:00:01 at the same moment. Tell me it is so. Puh-leeeze 8o

Also, was he performing such an act of technical wizadry whilst having both Vinnie Jones pointing a gun to his temple and some blonde bird sucking his cock simultaneously? Blimey. Talk about the carrot and stick approach :D

I trust that aspect is also accurate?
 
That's more or less as it goes. As a teenager I did a fair bit of phone phreaking but had to stop because my cock went all wrinkly from the constant fellatio, and I didn't like a gun in the face.
 
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