Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops
CNET ^ | January 23, 2012 | Declan McCullagh

Posted on 01/24/2012 12:06:01 AM PST by LibWhacker

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-111 next last
To: expat1000
Iran [Source 5]

2. Domestic laws and regulations According to the 2005 HRW report False Freedom, use of encryption for exchanging information requires a license. Users have to request permission by submitting crypto algorithm and keys and information about 'related parties' to the Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution, as regulated in art. 5.3.8 of the Rules and Regulations for Computer Information Providers.

Lol, poor b******s.
41 posted on 01/24/2012 2:23:52 AM PST by LibWhacker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Little Pig

8 years ago I would agreed with you.

Now... after seeing the Patriot Act abused, the Dept of Homeland Security abused (as I feared, but was told here ‘if you don’t have anything to hide, what does it matter...’)

W, as much I worked to get him elected in 08, wasn’t a conservative in the legal sense. Maybe in social issues, but not in legal ones. Or in fiscal ones for that matter.

That being said, I don’t feel it was from the same attitude as Obama, just ignorance. I like and miss W very much.


42 posted on 01/24/2012 2:25:17 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

Although none of us have anything to hide, there is no need to “at the least”, leave your deleted files available for anyone to bring back to life. As some of you know, deleted files go to your recycle bin to be permanently deleted at a future time unless you delete by using the “shift+delete method that bypasses the recycle bin. None of these files are ever really deleted, but sent to your free space on the drive. Most drives anymore have hundreds of gigabytes of free space at any given time leaving all your deleted files in tact for recovery.
ANSWER - Glary Utilities Free Edition - This program wipes your free space clean and should be run often, as it not only cleans up your past, but your puter will run faster when these Junk Deleted files go bye bye. Directions: Download “Glary Utilities” - Link included below from cnet. Open program and choose File Shredder - then choose “Wipe Free Space” and let ‘er rip. :-)
http://download.cnet.com/Glary-Utilities/3000-2094_4-10508531.html?tag=mncol;1


43 posted on 01/24/2012 2:34:08 AM PST by Chance Hart
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker
Gee, let's see: Face contempt of court which what, get's you a short stay in the pokey, or hand over incriminating evidence to the Feebs which could land you in the big house for years?

Duh! Decisions, decisions!

BTW, I think this judge is dead wrong.

44 posted on 01/24/2012 2:37:54 AM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet (l)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HiTech RedNeck

Exactly my thoughts. Some entranapeur is going to develop this. The creation of a system minus directories you specified.


45 posted on 01/24/2012 2:46:40 AM PST by Irishguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

This chaps my hide!

Plausible deniability is your friend.

You can use the possibility of surveillance to position “facts” that when discovered protect you.

A word to the wise......


46 posted on 01/24/2012 2:52:13 AM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chance Hart

Following up on my last Post -ran out of posting length- Glary has many other great features that that make “clearing your browser look like child play”. One of them is called “One Click Maintenance” which will send every website you have ever visited, along with every other thing that you thought you have sent to the PROMISED LAND actually to the PROMISED LAND never to be seen again by ANYBODY - PERIOD.
Many more great features to play with also. I have used it for years and every update makes it just get Better and Better. And no, I have NO affiliation with Glary!
http://download.cnet.com/Glary-Utilities/3000-2094_4-10508531.html?tag=mncol;1


47 posted on 01/24/2012 2:54:13 AM PST by Chance Hart
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: autumnraine

It sounds like you are very lucky my FRiend, to have such a daughter :-)


48 posted on 01/24/2012 3:03:21 AM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: Conservative Vermont Vet

Looking at what it says about this case (which is not a whole lot) it sounds virtually superfluous whether or not anybody can find the phonied documents on her computer, if she went and submitted them to government records under her Jane Doe (which normally requires signing for them separately from the document, meaning taking responsibility for the documents’ veracity). Is there some separate crime of “having phony documents on a computer” the prosecution hopes to have her found guilty of? It would at most lend a teeny bit more weight to an already heavy case she faces.


49 posted on 01/24/2012 3:03:43 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: autumnraine
She said, so what do we do when the judicial branch oversteps it’s authority.

You call upon president Gingrich to newter the beast!

Please dear God, help us to elect Newt.

50 posted on 01/24/2012 3:07:06 AM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: autumnraine

Follow these laws to the legislature — if the judge just “made the law up” it would get him/her a stern rebuke from the appellate courts. This is a political process.


51 posted on 01/24/2012 3:07:52 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: Bobalu

Newt can’t “Newter” a thing going on at a purely state level. Not without making Leviathian even more overweening.


52 posted on 01/24/2012 3:08:50 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: HiTech RedNeck
The biggest practical problem here would be keeping the harmless “decoy” up to date. You would have to web surf entertainment sites, play games, etc. and that eats up time, and has to be done all the time. Now if the computer could be made to show operating systems running in both the decoy and the hidden volume simultaneously, keeping the decoy up to date would be easier, but that probably creates other problems

I can't say I understand the second part, but I agree with the first, or I suppose leave it blank and you could say you set it up but never got around to using it.

My bigger concern would be that the inner volume would only show as empty to a very cursory examination. Even if it couldn't be decrypted, that would be trouble.

53 posted on 01/24/2012 3:14:50 AM PST by expat1000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: expat1000

An encrypted volume looks “full” whether there’s something in there or not.


54 posted on 01/24/2012 3:46:21 AM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: expat1000

The idea seems to be that the inner volume would appear to be a free space area filled with garbage that is as equally random to statistical inspection as free space on the outer volume is. It’s not like there is a bunch of nulls on the drive then all of a sudden this big balloon of “garbage.”


55 posted on 01/24/2012 3:49:34 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

I’ll tell them the truth...I dont know how the darn thing works.

(I do however have 3 boys, without whom I would be using an abacus)


56 posted on 01/24/2012 3:52:31 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HiTech RedNeck; Little Pig

OK - Got it, thanks.


57 posted on 01/24/2012 3:53:22 AM PST by expat1000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Chance Hart

Most drives anymore have hundreds of gigabytes of free space at any given time leaving all your deleted files in tact for recovery.


When I was a sysadmin, decomissioning drives entailed

1) Low-level format
2) write 0s across entire disk
3) write 1s across entire disk
4) Low-level format
5) (if it sensitive data in it) take out back and hit with BFH
6) Aw, heck, I’m lying, we hit ‘em ALL just because it was fun.

If it was a failed disk out of RAID and we couldn’t do 1-4, we went straight to 5. Several times.

Like I said, it was fun.


58 posted on 01/24/2012 4:04:47 AM PST by Peet (Cogito ergo dubito.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: expat1000

I use virtual machines. I can delete and overwrite them fairly easily.

You do all your web browsing from the VM, and all the port 80 calls go directly thru the hosts virtual switch, which doesn’t log the ip addresses used (it may log the MAC addresses, but that’s not really helpful to know where you went outside the local network). Of course, you can encrypt your virtual machines .vhd and .vmdk files but it puts a load on your performance.

You’d have to turn off some of your logging and other data on the VM host software, but it could be done. Yup, I like using vm’s to do stuff that is no one else’s business.

Someone tell these judges that if a woman’s right to privacy lets her kill her unborn baby, then I have an equal right to privacy from the prying eyes of government! What a country!!!


59 posted on 01/24/2012 4:14:28 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

Ping for later.


60 posted on 01/24/2012 4:14:52 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-111 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson