Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)

[Lazlo Toth]

On or about 8:16 PM -0500 9/21/98, Jim Choate wrote:
>Forwarded message:
>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:46:03 +0000
>> From: Michael Hohensee <mah248 at is9.nyu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
>
>> I believe that the idea was to set it up so that BIOS defaults to
>> HD-hiding mode.
>
>How do you propose to do this? Via a BIOS setting?

Yes.

>> When you're taking your laptop through customs, you do
>> nothing while the machine boots up, the doctored BIOS does its thing,
>> and everybody's happy.  When you want to get at the stuff on the rest of
>> the HD, you reboot and type in your passphrase.
>
>How do you propose to prompt the user for the correct time to type?

Pressing an obscure key combination during bootup to trigger the password
prompt should do the trick.

-Lazlo