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Same story from three weeks ago with many, many comments. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760700 It's very likely that any comments here will cover the same ground, so if you're interested in might be worth reading the comments there first.
✓ Old story (October 6th). ✓ Original article omits context. ✓ US Constitution does not cover the British. ✓ Already covered. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760700 No discussion required.
If he had been released and nothing further had happened, maybe you could say "No discussion required".
Same story from three weeks ago with many, many comments. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760700 It's very likely that any comments here will cover the same ground, so if you're interested in might be worth reading the comments there first.
Three weeks later and this fast food worker is still in jail. I guess in the UK there is no "innocent until proven guilty" and that's why some left to form the USA a while back. This story couldn't occur in the USA.
I repeat that I'm not arguing that the law is right. I'm merely pointing out that he is not innocent of the charges for which he is imprisoned.
I'm also pretty sure there are similar or analogous breaches of what one might call natural justice in the USA - I'm sure someone can provide examples.
This brings up an idea for TrueCrypt. Why not have two passwords: "foo" and "bar". If I type in "foo", I get my stuff. If I type in "bar", it may selfdestruct the data, but at least it will show a different content. So I create a 100GB container, and reserve 10GB as dummy content, maybe 1 mio. copies of the constitution, which will show up with "bar" as password. So I have a password for the police, and everybody is…
I think they call them shadow volumes...
This brings up an idea for TrueCrypt. Why not have two passwords: "foo" and "bar". If I type in "foo", I get my stuff. If I type in "bar", it may selfdestruct the data, but at least it will show a different content. So I create a 100GB container, and reserve 10GB as dummy content, maybe 1 mio. copies of the constitution, which will show up with "bar" as password. So I have a password for the police, and everybody is…
If Moore's Law keeps working, this is a ticking time bomb for him. If the police stay interested and crack his crypto, he'll do more time for whatever he's concealed on his computer (if anything).
50 characters x 8 bits = 400 bits of entropy
Even if you account for not having backspaces and linfeeds in the password, he could still easily have 256 bits of entropy.
Even with Moore's law, a strong algo like AES-256 is generally considered to be uncrackable, assuming the algorithm and the implementation don't have any flaws.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is valid, and it is morally reprehensible. In the US, the Fifth Amendment protects us from such travesties.
Not necessarily. For example, let's say I have a safe, and I've hidden the key. The police get a warrant to search my safe. I am then legally obligated to allow them to search my safe, which means that I am legally obligated to reveal the location of the key. In the case of the safe, if I refuse they'll just break it open. Strong encryption is not so easily broken so it may not be in my best interest to cooperate (wh…
Personally I agree with you. My data is my data, and I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
Same story from three weeks ago with many, many comments. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760700 It's very likely that any comments here will cover the same ground, so if you're interested in might be worth reading the comments there first.
Three weeks later and this fast food worker is still in jail. I guess in the UK there is no "innocent until proven guilty" and that's why some left to form the USA a while back. This story couldn't occur in the USA.
Actually it can and does. If a judge compels you to turn over your password as a part of the discovery process and you refuse then you can be served with a contempt warrant and go straight to jail without trial and with limited possibility to appeal.
This brings up an idea for TrueCrypt. Why not have two passwords: "foo" and "bar". If I type in "foo", I get my stuff. If I type in "bar", it may selfdestruct the data, but at least it will show a different content. So I create a 100GB container, and reserve 10GB as dummy content, maybe 1 mio. copies of the constitution, which will show up with "bar" as password. So I have a password for the police, and everybody is…
Already in there... I think they call them shadow volumes...
If Moore's Law keeps working, this is a ticking time bomb for him. If the police stay interested and crack his crypto, he'll do more time for whatever he's concealed on his computer (if anything).