Re: Truecrypt 5.0 Released (now with system partition encryption) nemo_outis wrote:
> "Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in
> news:61496qF1smtekU1@mid.dfncis.de:
>
>> nemo_outis wrote:
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>>> If that "other media" is permanently attached to the system (i.e.,
>>> "fixed") then plausible deniability is still shot. Since Microsoft
>>> only supports booting normal Windows (not PE, not embedded) from
>>> fixed media, what you want is unachievable with Windows as the OS
>>> (without violating the licence).
>
>> Once again: You can modify an normal Windows installation CD to allow
>> installation and booting from USB mass storage, FireWire Mass Storage
>> and SD Cards. Without any license violation. With a text editor and
>> cabarc (which is free to download from Microsoft).
>
>
> No, Sebastian, such a modification of Windows is not authorized by
> Microsoft.
Such a modification is even explicitly intended by Microsoft, it's called an
"unattended setup".
> And BTW, Sebastian, it's still utterly implausible that someone has a
> computer system with every HD completely filled with random junk.
I already told you some counterexamples.
> Remmember, Sebastian, it's not whether you find such patent nonsense
OK, now you even call standard practices nonsense.
> plausible but whether a judge and jury do.
They should. After all, any special attended expert can tell them that such
things are common practice. |