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Brief recap... Josh Dugger is fundy pedo who's just been nabbed for ... among other *new* things... owning child pornography. He's had a history of feeling up younger female family members in his youth. Eeeew.
From the news accounts I've been able to find (from the website Today for ... today) the feds found multiple password protected devices in his possession. That's no big deal - almost all my computers are password protected. You can tell that by the post-it notes with my password stuck on either the monitor or the case.
Hey, I own a lot of old computers. I can't remember all those passwords.
On his computer they found porno-sniffing software apparently written to detect the presence of porn on the machine. Josh's wife wanted to keep an eye on him I guess. Which suggests SHE DIDN'T TRUST HIM.
The FBI found a Linux partition on his computer. Now... it wasn't stated in the article that it was a *bootable* Linux partition but I'm guessing that it might be. This is dead easy to do since most Linux installs allow you to keep the Windows partition and operating system giving you a dual boot system. It's like two computers in one! Just don't try to run them at the same time.* Your grandmother could do this. Depending on the age of the computer, your internet speed and your install media - it would take all of 45 minutes to half an hour tops. That includes any upgrades although I'd allow another 15 minutes for the Nvidia drivers.
The problem with this is that when you turn on the PC it immediately shows a menu asking you which system you want to boot to.... a dead giveaway that you've been up to something.
On the *other hand* - if it was not a bootable Linux partition, Dugger could have been booting off a Linux boot USB or even a DVD - and just used the Linux partition to store his ill gotten goods. Again, all you need is a bootable Linux DVD or USB, create the partition and then run off the USB. When you're done - yank the USB and reboot the PC. It would boot normally into Windows so at first glance there's nothing amiss. The drive might appear smaller if you dug a little deeper but Windows can't really 'see' a Linux partition. Almost anyone could use that machine and have no idea what was on there.
Either way, I'm betting old Joshie boy would boot into Linux one way or the other - and download his smut from a TOR router - safe and invisible on his hidden partition.
Again, TOR routers merely allow you to surf (semi) anonymously. This is no big hacker feat. Download, install, surf anonymously. No hacking required. It's available in practically ever major Linux distro!
But the porn? Ah... he had to go looking for that. From the reports it was *cough* age specific.
So, no... Joshie boy is no L33t haXor... he's just a porn dog with a taste for puppies. Disgusting.
And he wants to be released to go back home to his wife and children. Yeah... no.
I hope they partition him from the rest of humanity.
-m
*that would be a Virtual Machine environment which is a whole different story
From the news accounts I've been able to find (from the website Today for ... today) the feds found multiple password protected devices in his possession. That's no big deal - almost all my computers are password protected. You can tell that by the post-it notes with my password stuck on either the monitor or the case.
Hey, I own a lot of old computers. I can't remember all those passwords.
On his computer they found porno-sniffing software apparently written to detect the presence of porn on the machine. Josh's wife wanted to keep an eye on him I guess. Which suggests SHE DIDN'T TRUST HIM.
The FBI found a Linux partition on his computer. Now... it wasn't stated in the article that it was a *bootable* Linux partition but I'm guessing that it might be. This is dead easy to do since most Linux installs allow you to keep the Windows partition and operating system giving you a dual boot system. It's like two computers in one! Just don't try to run them at the same time.* Your grandmother could do this. Depending on the age of the computer, your internet speed and your install media - it would take all of 45 minutes to half an hour tops. That includes any upgrades although I'd allow another 15 minutes for the Nvidia drivers.
The problem with this is that when you turn on the PC it immediately shows a menu asking you which system you want to boot to.... a dead giveaway that you've been up to something.
On the *other hand* - if it was not a bootable Linux partition, Dugger could have been booting off a Linux boot USB or even a DVD - and just used the Linux partition to store his ill gotten goods. Again, all you need is a bootable Linux DVD or USB, create the partition and then run off the USB. When you're done - yank the USB and reboot the PC. It would boot normally into Windows so at first glance there's nothing amiss. The drive might appear smaller if you dug a little deeper but Windows can't really 'see' a Linux partition. Almost anyone could use that machine and have no idea what was on there.
Either way, I'm betting old Joshie boy would boot into Linux one way or the other - and download his smut from a TOR router - safe and invisible on his hidden partition.
Again, TOR routers merely allow you to surf (semi) anonymously. This is no big hacker feat. Download, install, surf anonymously. No hacking required. It's available in practically ever major Linux distro!
But the porn? Ah... he had to go looking for that. From the reports it was *cough* age specific.
So, no... Joshie boy is no L33t haXor... he's just a porn dog with a taste for puppies. Disgusting.
And he wants to be released to go back home to his wife and children. Yeah... no.
I hope they partition him from the rest of humanity.
-m
*that would be a Virtual Machine environment which is a whole different story
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So...no, definitely not to be released to his family.
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