NT4 USB pen in the mail

It has a paper with a mission as well, an email address in a QR code and a request for some data to be sent.
But it is a gmail account with no known PGP key and it is not answering when a PGP key is requested (wrote yesterday)

USB key contains a boot / live disk of Tails (Linux)
Booting up tails it has an encrypted partition set up already, I tried the code on the slip of paper in the package, it did not work.

So we may have to wait to get the key another way.


If you have a windows PC with Secure boot, here is a guide + warning on how to start up the operating system (OS) on the USB pen:

You have to disable secure boot in order to launch the USB OS as it is not signed, even if you allow for 3rd party CA it will not launch.
To boot from the USB:

WindowsKey+I , search for "advanced start-up" and press "Restart now", then it will give you the option to boot from USB

This will work if Secure boot is off.
Try it, the worst that can happen is that the computer just restarts, telling you that secure boot has blocked the USB from launching due to lack of a certificate.


Disabling secure boot:

DISABLING SECURE BOOT MEANS THAT YOU NEED YOUR BITLOCKER BACKUP KEY
to start up windows after this
Meaning either the 48 number long reactivation code, a USB you made or going to your Microsoft account.

WindowsKey+I , search for "advanced start-up" and press "Restart now"
then press "Troubleshoot" > "Advanced Options" > "UEFI Firmware settings" > Restart
This will load up your BIOS /EFI setup
Where you can disable secure boot.
The menus are different depending on who made your computer, but you can google "disable secure boot" and the name that appears in the BIOS (HP, Acer, Asus etc.)

 

Thats really cool, was it like an early backer reward or something?

 

its a kickstarter reward, and theres been a lot of silence regarding this

 

Oh cool, I mean its nothing new but its a bit of inventive merch for once!

 

its not the first time something like this happens
during the blackwatchmen kickstarter there also was an option where people could get an USB key; on that one there was a file locked with a password, and an old nursery rhyme
ive been told that one of the unlocked files, was whitechapel reading "ex oblivione" (the same sound you can now find through the TBW client)

its just that distributing USB keys is very time consuming/expensive and the devs have a lot of bad experiences with 3rd party distrubtors

 

Oh I mean that's cool too.. but distributors can be a pain!