And if you use BitLocker, don't!

Even better is to memorize it.

Don’t print it. Your previous prints are easily retrievable

I think I've heard if you have a Microsoft account it automatically gets backed up

Just don't use windows

Full disk encryption doesn't help much if the pc is running anyway since the key will be in memory

This is where I think NFC may finally be useful. If cops show up, I slide my phone by a hidden NFC tag, and an http request is sent to my desktop machine. Everything incriminating is wiped and the computer is turned off, before the cops can walk to the room.

If it can be proven you did that, that's gonna look real bad in court.

Yeah, refusing a warrant is definitely a separate crime from whatever they're looking for on the computer. If something like this happens, the only way to protect yourself from a warrant is to fully delete everything on your computer. They can't arrest you for not handing over something that doesn't exist. The cops know this though, which is why they probably wouldn't give you that kind of warning without having a warrant ready to go, which is because this story is fake.

I removed the "only" from my text because it was a bit ambiguous.

But yes it was exactly that. It's like they consider themselves to be the law. "You're either with me or against me". Typical BS.

It's mostly cops that think they have something to prove and try to do stuff by themselves.

Yeah, you can tell a cop is fishing because they're talking to you. If they thought they could get what they want without talking to you they'd just be arresting you or doing violence to you

Making a martyr vs discrediting everything someone has ever done, and turning their family/friends/everyone against them and their ideology.

Hmm...

They do that already (gun them down), but they can't kill too many people! It's like they have a murder quota.

So, for the rest they plant evidence on, drugs and this.

Also, many of them are sadists and prefer the torture route (like 40 years in prison).

I'm dumb, what does this do?

Green and gay of whatever

Hah. TIL you can use shred on device files. I was only familiar with using dd to wipe drives.

Big magnets will only pull the arm off the plates and leave the data intact. Also why waste good hardware when all it needs is a couple of writes with all zeroes and ones?

Mircrowave.

Just take out anything LiON prior to nuking, and as much pure metal housing as you can.

And also plan on getting a new microwave.

And have a fire extinguisher on hand.

Feels like it's easier to just not have anything on your hard drive that's worth that much effort. I can only think of one type of file that would justify that level of obfuscation in most of the world, and I actually fully support owners of those files turning their PCs over to the police unmolested, so to speak

"Why do you you have 47 installs of Roller Coaster Tychoon anon?"

"I was multiboxing."

I don't believe any local law enforcement, at least where I'm at, has a cyber crimes team capable of knowing this and pursuing it even if they did. Federal level? Sure. But if they're coming they already have warrants and you're fucked. Local doesn't invest money in stuff like that.