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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: starrynight on May 18, 2012, 05:50 pm
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When you cut and paste does that info. get stored somewhere. Is there anyway I can't delete the history of that forever? Does it get saved somewhere on my laptop. Thanks for any informed responses!
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LOL
No....
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Technically yes. When you copy something, it's stored in RAM. RAM is cleared when you computer shuts off, but it's possible to retrieve data. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence#Data_in_RAM
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When you cut and paste does that info. get stored somewhere. Is there anyway I can't delete the history of that forever? Does it get saved somewhere on my laptop. Thanks for any informed responses!
In windows, the data is stored in your clipboard. You can clear the clipboard with the following command: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "echo off | clip"
But if you are worried about LE seeing what's on your clipboard, then I think you are probably not following some very basic security procedures, like encrypting your hard drive with TrueCrypt.
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Is truecrypt even necessary?
If I have no SR related bookmarks on my Tor broswer, no SR account/ewallet information stored in any files on my computer, and I have my usernames/passwords/SR URL memorized and not physically written down anywhere, there is no incriminating evidence on my computer, therefore I have no need for truecrypt, correct?
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But if you are worried about LE seeing what's on your clipboard, then I think you are probably not following some very basic security procedures, like encrypting your hard drive with TrueCrypt.
Is there any need to put your primary drive on a truecrypt encrypted partition, if you have TOR and anything else secret on the truecrypt partition?
Thanks.
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FYI using truecrypt and not handing over your truecrypt password is punishable in the UK, unless you go to further measures to have two different keys to decrypt your hard drive in two different manners - one completely legit, one less so legit.
Seriously though you don't need to use truecrypt, just use TAILS. it's an operating system made by the makers of Tor, it runs on USB which only stores data by RAM which gets wiped once it's shut down.
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Thank you for your responses. Anyone have a link to walk me through tails? I don't know how I would've figured out PGP without these forums. Thank you everyone. I need to clean this laptop up, too paranoid to let it go.
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FYI using truecrypt and not handing over your truecrypt password is punishable in the UK, unless you go to further measures to have two different keys to decrypt your hard drive in two different manners - one completely legit, one less so legit.
Seriously though you don't need to use truecrypt, just use TAILS. it's an operating system made by the makers of Tor, it runs on USB which only stores data by RAM which gets wiped once it's shut down.
Referring to my post above, is TAILS or TrueCrypt even necessary? Why store any incriminating data when you don't need to? Or am I forgetting something.?
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I'd suggest running a virtual machine (VMWare Player) and once you've installed the OS on the VM workstation you created truecrypt that partition.
That way you can do everything you'd normally do in your normal OS and do your 'secret' things in your virtual machine, whose contents are stored on your primary partition and truecrypted.
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Thanks Pharma. I've been trying all kind of things like ubuntu and it's not clicking for me unfortunately. I would just like to delete the content on my clipboard. I don't see why it doesn't disappear when I shut my computer down.
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Thanks Pharma. I've been trying all kind of things like ubuntu and it's not clicking for me unfortunately. I would just like to delete the content on my clipboard. I don't see why it doesn't disappear when I shut my computer down.
Well any contents of the clipboard in a virtual machine are stored on an encrypted partition, so that should fix things. I just find VMWare workstation a pain sometimes, its bloated and can be slow blah.
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Hi
If anyone's willing, I could really use some help. I'm running tails now but I just can't figure how to decrypt pgp messages. Anyone able to give advice or a good link? Thanks!
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in tails go to
applications -> accessories ->gedit
paste the pgp message
select all (ctrl+a)
edit->decrypt
also, you can import pgp keys the same way, rather than bothering with saving the pgpkey to a file
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Thank you tootie,
I can import public keys that way but I cannot decrypt. When I shut down it seems my key pair gets wiped out. So I can't decrypt. Thanks for your help.