On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:58:20AM -0400, real wrote: > > > > This wouldn't help you one bit in a raid. They can just make you type > in > > > > your password. > > > > > > I'd like to see them try. In the U.S. that would be a pretty blatant > > > violation of your 5th Amendment rights, and could conceivably get your > case > > > thrown out of court even if you did do it. > > > > I don't think you understand U.S. law. If they have a warrant to search > > your computer then you have to type your password for them. > > >From 1995 to 1998 (when I just couldn't stomach it anymore) I worked as a > CyberCrime consultant for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division > (CID) & a couple of other letter groups. If you fail to type in your > password upon demand, the most they can get you for is contempt of court > (although they will likely try to hit you with obstructing justice, also). > If the information you are worried about is encrypted with 3DES or better, > and it's not the NSA who's busted you, don't worry about it; just tell them > you forgot, or act the cybermoron who very obviously doesn't have a clue as > to what they are talking about. This is not the case in certain other repressive states such as the UK. The RIP Act says you must give them your password with a 2 year penalty. So you can give them your password, and gamble that they don't find anything interesting, or you can refuse, and get 2 years in jail guaranteed. And yes, it is unconstitutional (in that it will eventually be thrown out in the European Court...) > With freenet....I dunno. we might get away with "common carrier" defense. Not here. CF Demon vs... > But i will tell you the best way to run it on a Win32 platform: use either > bestcrypt, PGPdisk, or E4M (free) to create a virtual encrypted drive, using > blowfish or better; use a password of at LEAST 9 mixed alphanumerics. Once > your computer is turned off, or you log out, or whatever that information is > pretty much untouchable unless the NSA is REALLY PISSED at you. If that's > the case, they've already got your password from tempest, or a > walk-in-to-your-house-while you-are-not-there-and-set-up-a-camera warrant > and you're only protection is thermite on top of your drive and a hand > resting on the ignition switch at all times. Read the mailing list archives, back about a year, there's a really nice description of how to thoroughly wipe a hard disk using AC current :) > Re-lurking. (and yes, I run a node, up the revolution!!!!)
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