This really makes me miss the first season of Mr. Robot. 
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The parking garage looks more homey than that apartment.
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https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot19/presentation/fifield
13MB as zip…directly decompressing to 30TB.
Or any of those 4/5 of the way down or so seem to have applications.
Day sleeping in that apartment, there’s a bunch of hurt. Needed a workout just to fall asleep.
You guys seem to be confused. This apartment doesn’t have “minimalistic style”, it’s just unfurnished.
Either they just moved into this (very expensive, probably R$2 million) apartment or they were using it as a hiding spot. The use of a comforter on the bedroom window as an improvised curtain is a dead giveaway.
This situation was supposed to be temporary.
And Brazilian hackers are mostly very pale white middle class slightly pudgy guys with glasses that have a great time playing with hardware on hackerspaces. This guy looks like paramilitary Rambo-wannabe.
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Nah, this guy voted Bolsonaro all the way. All the paramilitary Rambo-wannabes do.
And this isn’t rich, this is nouveau rich - the kind you acquire doing shady business on dark web?
There’s a huge possibility that the empty apartment isn’t even his, it looks very temporary.
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I’d prefer a pneumatic press, myself.
At first watch, this would appear to be the start of a guerrilla marketing campaign for Apple.
For SSDs try a lump hammer. If the chips in the device are reduced to tiny particles it will make it difficult to retreive any information.
Mr. Robot shows how it can be done.
Will it blend.
What exactly was he hoping to accomplish by turning it off?
He was already logged out. Were the cops going to beat the password out of him? It wouldn’t have mattered whether the laptop was powered on or off, then.
Were the cops going to look at the contents of the drive by either taking the drive out or hooking up some kind of police drive scanner tool? Unless he encrypted stuff, they could do that regardless.
Can the cops analyze the contents of RAM somehow, by keeping the machine powered on their way to the police station, and then dump the RAM contents?
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The things that I can think of are that anything open at the moment would be closed. So they won’t know specifically what he was doing last.
Also, there can be keys etc. in memory which the would want to try and dump but which would be wiped if it were shut off.
Could also be an encrypted file system in a hidden place that was open but would be closed and hidden if the machine was turned off.
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The true professionals make their own destruction tools, like this portable EMP
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Call up NSA so they can ask Microsoft to get the back door open.
You have the number?
867-5309?
If you’re in the Chicago area, dial 800-588-2300
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Actually you don’t even need that, just say NSA three times close to any phone or computer…
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Yep, and in this sort of situation they might also come equipped with a battery backup, and a tech who can splice into the power cord of a desktop machine, so that it can be moved whilst still powered on. This is important with encrypted drives, because if you’re using it, then the passcodes will be held in memory so that you can access the files. Once it’s powered off they’re just left with an encrypted disk and no easy way in short of a rubber hose.
Theoretically if you can get to it quick enough, you can dump RAM contents even after the machine is powered off. Chances are a police force wouldn’t be set up to do this however. (see here)
Oh, and I agree with everyone else, that guy is way too buff to be a real hacker.
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