{"id":120,"date":"2005-04-18T19:16:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/annoying-security-company\/"},"modified":"2005-04-18T19:17:21","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T16:17:21","slug":"annoying-security-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/annoying-security-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoying &#8220;security&#8221; company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Googling the net I bumped into this hilarious, frustrating, &#8220;insert your own word here&#8221; company that sells PCs with &#8220;extra security&#8221;. It installs linux with some encryption options and asks very large amounts of money for a few copy paste clicks.<br \/>\nJust check this from their site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Installed Secure\u2122<\/p>\n<p>Level One: Default installation with firewall, encrypted swap, no insecure services such as sendmail. On Gentoo Linux we use Firehol the easy to read and verify iptables based firewall.<\/p>\n<p>Level Two: Loop-AES encrypted partition backed GPG secured multi-key encryption in a subdirectory of the default user with the GPG keyring stored on a USB keychain drive.<\/p>\n<p>Level Three: Entire \/home partition is encrypted with a GPG secured multi-key encryption with GPG keyring and partition keys stored on USB keychain drive. You must log in as root at the command line before logging in to X windows.<\/p>\n<p>Level Four: Encrypted root and \/home partitions with GPG secured multi-key encryption. Laptop unusable without keychain (and trusted CDROM if so desired). It is impossible to modify or even ascertain what is on the computer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How much does these cost ? Prepare yourselves&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Level1: 0$<br \/>\nLevel2: 200$<br \/>\nLevel1: 300$<br \/>\nLevel1: 400$ <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How ridiculous can some people be ?<br \/>\nLevel 2 is something like <a href=\"https:\/\/void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/usb-key-encryption-frenzy\/\">this previous post of mine<\/a>. Let&#8217;s count the chars:<br \/>\nThe characters of the commands needed are 470 (or 9 copy-paste lines as I have written them in my post). They are FULLY scriptable, ie a guy who knows a bit of bash can create a script to produce this kind of encrypted loopfiles with a single command in under 3 minutes. But let&#8217;s say they don&#8217;t copy paste the lines&#8230;but they write down every character every time&#8230;one by one. It still makes us 0.4255$ per character. THIS is called FRAUD! I am even typing more characters in this post than they are typing to get 200$. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to spot which is this company&#8230;just google some terms&#8230;<br \/>\nIf you find the site&#8230;check their other &#8220;offers&#8221; too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Googling the net I bumped into this hilarious, frustrating, &#8220;insert your own word here&#8221; company that sells PCs with &#8220;extra security&#8221;. It installs linux with some encryption options and asks very large amounts of money for a few copy paste clicks. Just check this from their site: Installed Secure\u2122 Level One: Default installation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3117,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}