Police Returned Property

Where have you been the past year? CIA tool leaks have demonstrated that UEFI is every bit the insecure piece of shit everyone always feared it could be.

We are not talking about real security here. Just enough to piss off the low level/fbianon tier of hacker.

I know that there is still ways in. I am just talking about upping the difficulty to the point (((they))) don't bother trying to get in. A truly dedicated attacker will ALWAYS get into a computer if they have physical access to it. With no exceptions. There is no such thing as secure hardware(yet).

Why did you get your property seized in the first place?

cp

what did you copy

>>>/4chan/
Get out you faggot. You are never safe if you are into that stuff. Gas yourself.

I don't know much about security, but if the disk is encrypted, isn't it very hard if not impossible to access it?
And if you really want to know, you could put your laptop behind a very strict firewall that logs everything and wait for it to phone home. Then sandbox an image of your hard drive and wait for the same behavior, if it doesn't then it means that your hardware is compromised. Wouldn't this be a good way to know?

Why?

If the cmos battery was pulled, this is outside the skillset of the local police department. I have definite reason to believe they were shipped to Langley during the year and a half they were in police possession.

This is fantastic advice. Thank you.

I'm not looking at pissing them off, this is more identifying compromises, and mitigating data loss as much as possible. These were corporate machines, so I need to pull off pdf's and odt's of legal documents, svgs of product designs, and jpegs. I need to find a way to mitigate the risk of putting these potentially-infected files onto my machine.

Can't say, for fear of releasing too much info, but it was not CP or Drugs.

thank you for the laugh.

Nice reddit memes friendo. Epic thread, epic for the win!

The battery ran out, that happens if you leave it unplugged. But feel free to sell it and buy a new one, peace of mind can be worth the $100 or so you lose from it.