More BE for your Buck

[ArcaneBEFan]

On the topic of how to hide your BE browsing...

Meet OVERKILL

Military Grade Flash Drive with it's own copy of Firefox, means files viewed & downloaded while surfing with this will be stored on the flash drive, not your home computer. 4GB of storage so secure it's been used in war zones. All files saved under military-grade encryption, and if that's not enough the drive has a self-destruct feature that triggers after 10 failed attempts to gain access to your files. Highly water-resistant, and impervious to viewing by electron microscopes (in case it ever comes up).

Of course, that is a bit extreme... You could just do something sneaky like hide the file in part of one of your programs file directories, mark the folder as hidden, and change the .txt or .pdf endings of your files to random 3-letter combinations. Then you just change the extension back when you plan to view the file.

[Bareon]

Extreme...?
For a civilian yes.. In other words that card isn't "Military grade"... its "nerd grade"... cause someone in the military can crack it open regardless of what defenses it may have --the sides can be torn apart to allow observation. Then copy the encrypted bit contents,and run it through several algorithms till it comes out clean. Not to mention they can have the pathing systems of the encryption chip analyzed so they can learn how the info was encrypted.. as well as sever the pathing that allows the chip to "burn itself and dump scrambled data in". That in effect would give them unlimited tries.

Also, what person would want a memory card that doesn't work after 10 failed uses, EVER AGAIN?
So.. civilian wise, its an expensive toy for a child/curious person to momentarally mess with till it fries itself. Military wise, its just an irritation.
/end semi-relevant-yet-completely-irrelevant-relevance-rant

[catfish27]

Originally Posted by busterbrother

It's hard to find all the titles for the bestory club, and I was thinking about posting a list of all their titles to date (NOT THE MATERIAL! JUST A LIST OF WHAT MATERIAL THEY HAVE!), as I have a current account.

No need to post -- the BESC's official list is freely accessible (but if you're not logged in as a member, you can't download any of the comics/stories, of course).

[Hao]

I wonder if you can buy individual stories a'la cart, as opposed to subscribing to the service.

[zenaku]

Unfortunately no.

[Hao]

That's a shame.

[PrBlahBlahtson]

Originally Posted by Bareon

Extreme...?
For a civilian yes.. In other words that card isn't "Military grade"... its "nerd grade"... cause someone in the military can crack it open regardless of what defenses it may have --the sides can be torn apart to allow observation. Then copy the encrypted bit contents,and run it through several algorithms till it comes out clean. Not to mention they can have the pathing systems of the encryption chip analyzed so they can learn how the info was encrypted.. as well as sever the pathing that allows the chip to "burn itself and dump scrambled data in". That in effect would give them unlimited tries.

Also, what person would want a memory card that doesn't work after 10 failed uses, EVER AGAIN?
So.. civilian wise, its an expensive toy for a child/curious person to momentarally mess with till it fries itself. Military wise, its just an irritation.
/end semi-relevant-yet-completely-irrelevant-relevance-rant

Actually I can see a legitimate use for it in storing SSN or other sensative data that keeps getting stolen/lost. While government-level resources could get things off it in an action-movie-esque sequence, 99.9% of the population wouldn't have a way to lift the data. A few private sector companies could, but they charge 4+ figures for their services, and as soon as they found out what you had (and you didn't know yourself,) the game would be up.

Here's scenarios I see happening:
- Idiot criminal picks it up, tries to break in, fails, blows up the data.
- Idiot cop gets it, sees it has a password, tries to format it for personal use, fails, it gets trashed or tossed in a lost-and-found or evidence locker.
- Smart cop gets it, knows that the office doesn't have the resources/money to waste on finding out what's inside, it ends up in a drawer somewhere.

Yes, it's not 100% fool proof, but from a security stand-point it's reasonably well encrypted and protected. If someone insisted they HAD to have company records with them when they traveled, something like that is what I'd want them carried on.

[catfish27]

Inspired by this thread, I subscribed to Expansion Comics. Admittedly, I haven't gotten through all of what's available there yet, but so far, I'm disappointed, particularly in comparison with the BESC. The BESC has more content available, of a consistently higher quality -- and actually has numerous stories/comics that have gotten to an ending (either because they were one part only, or because all the parts were posted reasonably quickly). I think everything I've looked at on Expansion Comics is "to be continued."

So, unclecanabis, if you're still paying attention to this thread: I would definitely choose the BESC.

[nothingclever]

Originally Posted by PrBlahBlahtson

Actually I can see a legitimate use for it in storing SSN or other sensative data that keeps getting stolen/lost. While government-level resources could get things off it in an action-movie-esque sequence, 99.9% of the population wouldn't have a way to lift the data. A few private sector companies could, but they charge 4+ figures for their services, and as soon as they found out what you had (and you didn't know yourself,) the game would be up.

Here's scenarios I see happening:
- Idiot criminal picks it up, tries to break in, fails, blows up the data.
- Idiot cop gets it, sees it has a password, tries to format it for personal use, fails, it gets trashed or tossed in a lost-and-found or evidence locker.
- Smart cop gets it, knows that the office doesn't have the resources/money to waste on finding out what's inside, it ends up in a drawer somewhere.

Yes, it's not 100% fool proof, but from a security stand-point it's reasonably well encrypted and protected. If someone insisted they HAD to have company records with them when they traveled, something like that is what I'd want them carried on.

But that's a dead giveaway, I'd hide it in the shittiest travel drive from costco but keep the fancy usb with me. Everyone in the world knows that a really secure anything means either "good stuff" or porn.

[unclecanabis]

Woof, lots of info. A: Thanks for the input from those who were educated enough to stay on thread. B: For those of you that suggested the Flash Drive, THANK YOU. C: Encryption is a good idea, but when you have 2 teenage girls on Myspace constantly you are bound to get viruses and I do have Anti-Virus programming, but those programs can do nothing when your kid hits the "Its ok to download I know the risk" Button, and then installs. I am not the most computer savey guy in the world, but I do know how to format my Harddrive and re-install windows, so I would loose the data anyways. Once the kids are gone and not useing my PC I will look into encryptian programs to do so, as my files will be much safer then. Thanks again folks.

[PrBlahBlahtson]

Originally Posted by nothingclever

But that's a dead giveaway, I'd hide it in the shittiest travel drive from costco but keep the fancy usb with me. Everyone in the world knows that a really secure anything means either "good stuff" or porn.

But again, while they may deduce something important is on it, 99.9% won't be able to extract it.

[Aarondaretard]

So, unclecanabis, if you're still paying attention to this thread: I would definitely choose the BESC.[/QUOTE]

I've been with the BESC for a while, is expansion comics worth a months trail? Secondly can you save the comics you view?