begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:55:15PM -0700: > John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > All encrypton does is slow the bad guys down, it does not stop them. The > > law, however, says you do not have to *report* the loss of encrypted and > > stolen personal identifying information. > > I disagree. If someone steals my laptop for crack money they aren't > going to decrypt it. Even if the mob steals my laptop for the data on it > how are they going to crack it? Even if the feds steal my laptop and > dedicate massive resources to cracking it and are successful are they > really going to reveal their ability to do so by taking advantage of the > info in anything but a very non-obvious way?
They'll secretly arrest you, and then secretly try you for violations of secret laws (which, being a criminal, you aren't authorized to see), using the secret data they acquired by cracking your hard drive, and then they'll lock you up in a secret prison... -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
