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Deniability and Duress

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Re: Deniability and Duress

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Post by angry_octet »

afandian wrote: post #114
angry_octet wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll be flagged as someone who has something to hide because you had no phone. Just get a travel phone and another set of accounts (email/fb), use them occasionally, take some silly instagram photos of dogs/face swaps/food and you're done.

Yeah maybe. But I don't do any web, email or social media on my phone anyway (I used to, heavily, but it wasn't a positive thing in my life so I cut it out. That's a separate issue). Re dog photos, as others have said, falsifying anything is a very bad idea.

Use real dogs?

Re: Deniability and Duress

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Post by loup-vaillant »

pessimizer wrote: post #118
mirimir wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's the downside of carrying stuff that you can't decrypt. They won't believe you, and won't stop until you decrypt it. Better is not to have anything sensitive with you.

Encrypted volumes look random. There's no way of proving whether or not you have something you can't decrypt. Hence the need to have some innocent volume to decrypt as a tool in the argument to convince an interrogator that you have nothing left to hide.

Better yet, fill every hard drive with random junk before formatting and selling them. If everyone has random data in their free space, it won't even look suspicious.

Re: Deniability and Duress

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Post by afandian »

angry_octet wrote: post #121
afandian wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah maybe. But I don't do any web, email or social media on my phone anyway (I used to, heavily, but it wasn't a positive thing in my life so I cut it out. That's a separate issue). Re dog photos, as others have said, falsifying anything is a very bad idea.

Use real dogs?

I hate dogs.

Re: Deniability and Duress

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Post by _nedR »

throwawayish wrote: post #49
Waterluvian wrote: post #34

Like a fake ATM PIN number that shows only $28 in your account and signals authorities.

Actually does not sound like a bad idea.

The idea isn't new but it never really took off.

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_SafetyPIN_software

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