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Re: Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid [ENGLISH]

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Post by cnvogel » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:44 AM UTC

contingencies wrote: post #8

spacehome wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The really clever way to encrypt your drives is to make the passphrase for the drive decrypt a very small (512-bit) header that contains the decryption key for the rest of the drive. Then wiping the drive consists of just erasing those critical bits quickly.

Except that erasure on modern drives rarely actually erases things...

Hence it is advisable to store the encryption key somewhere where erasure was properly accounted for during design, e.G. a TPM (trusted platform module).

Re: Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid [ENGLISH]

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Post by vonnik » Thu, May 28, 2015, 4:42 PM UTC

Thanks for the great translation. One clarification for readers: The tense in the first sentence of the translation is a modal "would have", which is used to indicate indirect quotes in French. What it really means is that Uber engineers did try to remotely encrypt data, Revenu Quebec says.

Penultimate paragraph: "Another investigator, carrying out A RAID in another office..." "Un second mandat" hear means carrying out a second set of orders.

Re: Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid [ENGLISH]

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Re: Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid [ENGLISH]

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Re: Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid [ENGLISH]

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Post by namlem » Fri, May 29, 2015, 5:54 PM UTC

late2part wrote: post #5

If indeed Uber personnel actively encrypted their data after it was seized, this brings up an interesting question! If your property is stolen and taken without your permission, and you can control it - why aren't you entitled to destroy it? I suppose it depends on the legality and force of the order to seize; but if it did not include an order to the owner, I posit they were within their natural rights to delete the…

Natural rights are fictional.