[liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

[Rich Kulawiec]

I think "remote wipe software" is a scam.  There is no way to know that
the system will ever be remotely accessible[1]; there is no way to know that
it will be booted into the operating system that was installed; there is
no way to know that the storage media will even be in the same system
when it's accessed; there is no way to know that the wiping software
will run before storage media are accessed; there is no way to know that
the wiping software will finish running; there is no way (in general)
to know that the wiping software will do a thorough enough job.

Yes, you might accidentally defend against a common thief who doesn't
know any of this and boots your laptop into your OS on their network
without a sensibly-configured firewall in the data path.  But most
of them will learn, soon enough, not to do that -- it'll probably just
take a few high-profile cases that attract enough media attention.

Use encryption -- so that your storage media are functionally pre-wiped,
so to speak, all the time.

---rsk

[1] A Faraday cage should suffice to prevent wireless communication.