[quote]pookie wrote:
Of course, the legal remedy for that is to issue a warrant for your password, and if you refuse to issue it, you’re thrown in jail. I’m not familiar with the US situation, but many European countries have those kinds of law in place right now. [/quote]
Circumventing that is, while not trivial, certainly possible.
[quote]lixy wrote:
pookie wrote:
Of course, the legal remedy for that is to issue a warrant for your password, and if you refuse to issue it, you’re thrown in jail. I’m not familiar with the US situation, but many European countries have those kinds of law in place right now.
Circumventing that is, while not trivial, certainly possible.[/quote]
Well, some systems (for example TrueCrypt) offer a “two level” encryption scheme, where you can give on password that reveals somewhat innocuous files, and another one that’s the “real” one.
Maintaining the innocuous files in a state that has them resemble a real, live, in-use-daily partition is a lot of work, though.
Note also that if the authorities “know” that they’re looking for, they might be able to convince a judge that your revealed password is not the real one and still throw you in jail.
Circumventing the law with technology is an “iffy” proposition at best. Better make sure that the laws are fair as possible to begin with.
Is America Getting Dumber?
I saw this video and thought it was pretty fitting for this topic.
[quote]pookie wrote:
Maintaining the innocuous files in a state that has them resemble a real, live, in-use-daily partition is a lot of work, though. [/quote]
Hence, “non trivial”.
5 pages of answers and not one comment on the interview of Norman Dodd and the Reece report, on which Iserbyte’s book is based upon.
Maybe she was right after all.