distributed two to friends “in case he was killed.”
If the friends have these hard drives connected to their computers while on the internet in the last few days, then they already know who and where you are. They've scanned every hard drive in the country since the news broke trying to find any snippet of it. Make ten copies and distribute them and have them make ten to distribute.
And by what means do you think they have scanned every hard drive in the country?
Even if all of the hard drives in the world magically sent a dump of their contents, how would they be able to reasonably search all that data? Are they looking for file names, those could've changed. Are they going to look for hash values of every file on every hard drive, ever?
Windows (any version), shitty cable modem and wireless router firmware that hasn't been updated since they were installed and IOT devices that open all sorts of ports to phone home.
The Windows index file/service is your friend. Nobody turns that shit off. The indexing service is always running in the background, crunching away at the contents of your files while you sleep.
If you're talking about software running on the machine to 'crunch files' so that the computer would find matches and export them, that would require an update so the software knows what would constitute a 'match' (some specific filename, file hash, etc).
Which of course isn't out of the realm of technical possibility, but is definitely going to be noticed. Either the OS has an undocumented back door process that would go out to everyone and get flagged immediately by systems with mid-level security monitoring, or the sender of these updates would have to know which systems would be 'safe' to update without being noticed.
Coming from someone who honestly believes that China is buying aborted fetuses from around the world to do bio-research on chimera, the post I replied to is the most unlikely conspiracy theory I've seen in a long time. The poster doesn't seem to demonstrate any understanding of how modern systems work and what goes on out in the landscape of real hardware.
distributed two to friends “in case he was killed.”
If the friends have these hard drives connected to their computers while on the internet in the last few days, then they already know who and where you are. They've scanned every hard drive in the country since the news broke trying to find any snippet of it. Make ten copies and distribute them and have them make ten to distribute.
And by what means do you think they have scanned every hard drive in the country?
Even if all of the hard drives in the world magically sent a dump of their contents, how would they be able to reasonably search all that data? Are they looking for file names, those could've changed. Are they going to look for hash values of every file on every hard drive, ever?
C'mon, man!
Windows (any version), shitty cable modem and wireless router firmware that hasn't been updated since they were installed and IOT devices that open all sorts of ports to phone home.
The Windows index file/service is your friend. Nobody turns that shit off. The indexing service is always running in the background, crunching away at the contents of your files while you sleep.
If you're talking about software running on the machine to 'crunch files' so that the computer would find matches and export them, that would require an update so the software knows what would constitute a 'match' (some specific filename, file hash, etc).
Which of course isn't out of the realm of technical possibility, but is definitely going to be noticed. Either the OS has an undocumented back door process that would go out to everyone and get flagged immediately by systems with mid-level security monitoring, or the sender of these updates would have to know which systems would be 'safe' to update without being noticed.
Coming from someone who honestly believes that China is buying aborted fetuses from around the world to do bio-research on chimera, the post I replied to is the most unlikely conspiracy theory I've seen in a long time. The poster doesn't seem to demonstrate any understanding of how modern systems work and what goes on out in the landscape of real hardware.
I would be inclined to set a trap for would-be fixers.