Posted on 01/24/2012 12:06:01 AM PST by LibWhacker
You don’t have a right to prevent the government from spying on you.
Sounds like the Brits and King George have come back after two hundred odd years. “Into the hoosegow until you remember where you put that key!”
But do you have to furnish them the wherewithal to spy?
I could see the creation of “chameleon” PGP systems that when brought up with one passphrase have all the naughty bits, but when brought up with another one have naughty bits permanently erased.
The surveillance net on America is quite staggering.
well, what are they gonna do if you decline to comply? torture the passwords out of you?
That’s a cool idea. I like that.
Charge you with contempt of court. You could spend a long time in jail. Personally, I’m a law-abiding guy and have nothing to hide. But if I weren’t, I wouldn’t refuse outright. I’d just say I forgot the passphrase. They can’t punish you for that.
I mean the wherewithal to spy, in particular, on YOU.
This is Big Brother again, and you must not turn off the monitor in your house.
simple solution: 2 passwords
one to unlock... one to wipe
seriously though, so much for not incriminating yourself
Fricosu doesn’t sound in particular like any angel, but this sounds like overkill in this case. She submitted forged documents — who cares if she made them on the laptop or farmed it out to China? Nail her on the forged documents she submitted.
Well, you would want to wipe to innocuous looking state, and also so that the result cannot be distinguished from the result of decrypting to your own state. That way they can’t have any legal basis to look and say “this was a phony pass, now we will restore from our backups and you have to do it right this time.”
The cops take your laptop, you give them a password.
Instead of the real data getting decrypted, it either gets scrambled or rendered innocuous.
Beat me to it.
Deem you a terroist. Send you to Gitmo. Waterboard you.
Just a portion of the pass phrase awould enable most cracking algorithms a 98% chance to succeed....
Now its the Sh*ts and King George Soros, along with his donkey eared court fool..
Just a portion of the pass phrase awould enable most cracking algorithms a 98% chance to succeed....
Siege heil!
Jawol, comrade, you MUST comply!
‘F any court that rules against our clearly elucidated constitutional rights.
The tendency to support LE even when they are WRONG is NOT conservative, it is short sighted, and smacks of cowardice.
I thought Gov. Org. already forced the PGP programmers to give them a master key?
Here is a business idea.
Someone sets up a company called Foreign Encryption Services (FES) in a foreign country like Russia, out of reach of the US courts. Anyone who wants to avoid turning their data over just needs to sign a license to FES that will exclusively and completely and irrevocably sell all of the content of their hard drives, clouds, phones, personal computers etc etc to FES. For $20 a month, FES will lease access to that content and the drives/cloud/phone etc back to you, encrypted. FES will provide you a key only if you certify that you are not facing any civil or criminal penalty. If you should be indicted, or sued, or compelled in any way by any court to turn over data, you are in violation of our agreement and FES will cease to provide you encryption keys and block your access to the data.
So even if the court compelled you, you couldn’t do it because 1) it isn’t yours (it belongs to FES) and 2) to give it would be to force a breach of contract with FES and 3) you don’t have they key to unlock it even if you did own it and didn’t face civil penalties for turning it over.
I sure don’t want to create ideas that will help criminals and pedophiles, and I understand the need for law and order, but in this day and age where data and ideas can be licensed, where stuff can be stored remotely and accessed remotely etc, the court is behind the times. This can be prevented by those who want to prevent it.
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