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blackwave · 05-01-2002

Premise, you are cruising an area stumbling, you are following all regulations to everone's understanding, you have broken no traffice laws, no loitering laws, you look like you are the right race for where you are... and suddenly you see the lightbar in your mirror, and the highbeams hit, and the directionals hit... In panic you look to your seat and see your laptop with the gps hooked, the external antenna hooked, a wave file saying "another one bites the dust" repeatedly... On the screen you have MapPoint2002, with a trail of where you have been, you have NS with all the AP's found so far... perhaps even Sniffer 4.x in the background, waiting... you hear the car door close twice, and see two shadows go approaching opposite sides of your vechicle...

How would action take place where a LEO would pull you over, perhaps see your "Honk if you Stumble", or "Stumble or Be Stumbled" bumper stickers... ask for your info, and explained that they pulled you over because the neighbors were complaining that they noticed that anytime you were in the vicinity their networks logs caught got "All your 802.11b are belong to us"... and that they wanted to inspect your car for any mechanisms that would possibly be doing this....

Of course you want to comply, but you don't want any trouble either...

Would the LEO write you a ticket?
Would the LEO do it (inspect) themselves on the spot?
Would the LEO confiscate your hardware?
Would the LEO call a digital forensics officer to come on down?
Would the LEO pull out his weapon and command you to step out of the vehicle?

What if the harddrive was encrypted, bootlocked and boobytrapped, and you "accidentally" hit the power switch immediately when you got pulled over?

Would they ask you for the private keys?
How bad would they want to get into your box?
How much could you resist? Would it be worth resisting?

Any theories? Suggestions, or other forms of mental masturbation for the what if?

Not enough... ? How about if you have a bright blue mohawk, and have a tshirt that says, "hack'em all, let sysadmin sort them out...", playing's body counts "cop killer" as your stumble music... and a license plate that says HCKINGU.

05-01-2002	#11 (permalink)
blackwave Do I look like I'm joking Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: SoCal, OC Posts: 4,507	People, the masses (read if bored) Premise, you are cruising an area stumbling, you are following all regulations to everone's understanding, you have broken no traffice laws, no loitering laws, you look like you are the right race for where you are... and suddenly you see the lightbar in your mirror, and the highbeams hit, and the directionals hit... In panic you look to your seat and see your laptop with the gps hooked, the external antenna hooked, a wave file saying "another one bites the dust" repeatedly... On the screen you have MapPoint2002, with a trail of where you have been, you have NS with all the AP's found so far... perhaps even Sniffer 4.x in the background, waiting... you hear the car door close twice, and see two shadows go approaching opposite sides of your vechicle... How would action take place where a LEO would pull you over, perhaps see your "Honk if you Stumble", or "Stumble or Be Stumbled" bumper stickers... ask for your info, and explained that they pulled you over because the neighbors were complaining that they noticed that anytime you were in the vicinity their networks logs caught got "All your 802.11b are belong to us"... and that they wanted to inspect your car for any mechanisms that would possibly be doing this.... Of course you want to comply, but you don't want any trouble either... Would the LEO write you a ticket? Would the LEO do it (inspect) themselves on the spot? Would the LEO confiscate your hardware? Would the LEO call a digital forensics officer to come on down? Would the LEO pull out his weapon and command you to step out of the vehicle? What if the harddrive was encrypted, bootlocked and boobytrapped, and you "accidentally" hit the power switch immediately when you got pulled over? Would they ask you for the private keys? How bad would they want to get into your box? How much could you resist? Would it be worth resisting? Any theories? Suggestions, or other forms of mental masturbation for the what if? Not enough... ? How about if you have a bright blue mohawk, and have a tshirt that says, "hack'em all, let sysadmin sort them out...", playing's body counts "cop killer" as your stumble music... and a license plate that says HCKINGU. __________________ -=BW=-