Until the 5th amendment and encryption issues get worked out, these drives should delete themselves upon unauthorized access.
TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court
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#12The author references a previous letter that describes what he's doing in jail. Can anyone find that?
I can't find anything either, and the fact that he doesn't include that in the letter sort of implies that it's something that'd immediately lose him any sympathy or backing, doesn't it?
So?
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#13This is why you always have TrueCrypt use multiple volumes. This is exactly what plausible deniability is for.
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#14Until the 5th amendment and encryption issues get worked out, these drives should delete themselves upon unauthorized access.
Fifth amendment and encryption issues are already worked out. Just like you can be compelled to open a safe, you can be compelled to decrypt a volume.
A self-destroying drive would likely get you a conviction for obstructing justice, just like shredding the contents of a safe would.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still seems low on details, but maybe this one? http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?p=94607
"The user received a subpoena duces tecum requiring him to type the passwords or pass phrases necessary to produce the encrypted contents of drives seized 6 months earlier. The true crypt user has attempted to comply but he is still being held in contempt." Did he forget his TrueCrypt password?
Its a criminal case.,..which basically means if he judge requests a document that is encrypted on a hd than defendant cannot refuse or they are in contempt
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#16The author references a previous letter that describes what he's doing in jail. Can anyone find that?
I think this is the guy: http://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Matthew_Bumgardner_548009... Google searches for '"Matthew Bumgardner" arrest' or '"Matthew Bumgardner" truecrypt' were unhelpful. It appears that this story hasn't had any media attention.
If he's in Santa Rosa I don't think that's him. Santa Rosa is in California.
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#18Until the 5th amendment and encryption issues get worked out, these drives should delete themselves upon unauthorized access.
The servers taken from Instapaper were shown to have not even been booted, let alone shown to give access to any files. Standard procedure is to copy any drive you can get your hands on before seeing what's on it, to stop preventative measures like this.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is the guy: http://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/Matthew_Bumgardner_548009... Google searches for '"Matthew Bumgardner" arrest' or '"Matthew Bumgardner" truecrypt' were unhelpful. It appears that this story hasn't had any media attention.
If he's in Santa Rosa I don't think that's him. Santa Rosa is in California.
It's Santa Rosa county, which is in Northwest Florida.
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#20The author references a previous letter that describes what he's doing in jail. Can anyone find that?
Still seems low on details, but maybe this one? http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?p=94607
It's really not clear at all what the demand regards. 5th Amendment doesn't apply when the "papers" refer to someone else.