[lug] drive free space "wiper" recommendation

[Glenn Murray]

Hi Paul,

I wasn't responding to your "triggering post" at all.

As to your second paragraph, I can't speak for others, of course, but
when I'm referring to the government I'm referring to someone with the
(presumed) legal authority to do what they're doing.  The other
organizations you mention (presumably) would have no such authority.
I don't know that the US federal government is more likely than anyone
else to break into computers.  However, for me, the scariest hackers
from Hollywood are the feds in movies like "Enemy of the State".  So
maybe that's how they feed into people's Big Brother nightmares and
makes them the prominent villain.

Cheers,
Glenn

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Paul E Condon
<pecondon at mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
>
> Actually my triggering post was, I thought, about using disk wiping
> software as a vector for infecting a working computer with a trojan (I
> think that is the word for malware that is inserted by deception),
> which trojan is designed to send cracking information to someone who
> is interested in cracking into computers of known security nut cases,
> who just might put some interesting stuff on the old HD. I guess I
> didn't express myself clearly enough.
>
> As a separate issue, I am curious about the assumption that the most
> likely perp. in a breakin into a computer in USA is gov't of USA. Why
> not Mossad, or some Islamic counterpart to it? or BP? or Goldman? or
> some other evil doers? Why fixate on the organization that is much
> more likely just to smash in the door to the building and waterboard
> whoever they find inside?
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>