18/04/2005
Annoying “security” company
While Googling the net I bumped into this hilarious, frustrating, “insert your own word here” company that sells PCs with “extra security”. 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™
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.
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.
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.
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.
How much does these cost ? Prepare yourselves…
Level1: 0$
Level2: 200$
Level1: 300$
Level1: 400$
How ridiculous can some people be ?
Level 2 is something like this previous post of mine. Let’s count the chars:
The 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’s say they don’t copy paste the lines…but they write down every character every time…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$.
It’s easy to spot which is this company…just google some terms…
If you find the site…check their other “offers” too…
Filed by kargig at 19:16 under General,Linux
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