Keeping your data from the FBI

After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the FBI been given more

or less free access to spying around, if you are suspected of being a terrorist,
or having any affiliate whatsoever with terrorism. (Aaah.. Haje uses the
same computer network (the Internet) as terrorists. That means we can search
his computer)

Because of this, here are some guidelines to keeping your data files safe from
the FBI:

1. Invent your own language, and write all your letters and data in
   this language. Make sure nobody else knows this language, and make sure you
   don't keep notes about it. Also make sure that, if it has to be based
   on another language, base it on a Uralic language (instead of a Germanic,
   Slavic, Baltic or Hellenic language)



2. ROT-13 encode all your messages. Make sure you do this manually
   - you never know what kind of logging routine Microsoft has built into Windows


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4. Write your text document in Notepad, (ROT-13 rotated, backwards
   and in your new language) which doesn't keep those pesky temporary files



5. PGP encrypt all your file. Do it three times, with different keys,
   just to be sure.


6. Compress your file, using WinZip, or whatever other program you
   fancy. Remember to add a nice password to the ZIP file.


7. Split your files into several segments (say about 50)



8. Duplicate the files (so you get double the number of files, 100 in
   our case) and rename all the file numbers, just to confuse them, you know!
   Remember which 50 are needed, and which 50 are useless duplicates. Also, remember
   the correct order of the files. Also: if you omit as much as a single character
   in the files, your PGP encryption won't decrypt.


9. Compress your files. Again. (use a new password)


10. PGP encrypt your file. Again.(use a new password)



11. Write your file to a 5¼ inch floppy disk (or even a 8"
    one)


12. Destruct the computer you used to make the files.
    
    
    
    1. Take it apart completely
    
    
    
    2. Cut all the electric wires you can find
    
    
    3. Break all circuit boards
    
    
    4. Bend all connectors.
    
    
    5. open the hard drive
    
    
    
    6. With a hard tool (preferrably a diamond) scratch the hard drive platters
       as much as you can. Even better: sandblast the platters. It should
       look like frosted glass by the time you are finished
    
    
    7. demagnitize the harddrives completely
    
    
    
    8. Set it all on fire
    
    
    
    


13. Put the floppy in a waterproof safe, and drop it over the Aegean
    Sea (or some other ocean nobody has heard about) preferrably
    from an inconspicious-looking cessna

See how easy that was?

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Extracted from: www.everything2.com