Doug LaRue wrote:
It's a fine line and one easily crossed on the way to outright infringement
of legal rights under the constitution. But at the same time, providing proof
for the reason for the search would also expose tactics used to verify a
criminal activity....
Uh, no. Wrong. It's not a fine line at all. We're *way* over it.
The smart criminals are already past all this. They have the money to
burn to do smart things.
The dumb criminals will get caught without this.
This is all about harassing the citizenry.
On of the most interesting things I've heard recently is that "as a
criminal, you only need to encrypt your drive to withstand 40 hours of
work". After that, other methods are more economical.
Now, DHS will probably take your laptop out of pique, but they won't get
your data.
As long as you're not using Windows. We have educated everybody around
us about the NSA Key backdoors, right?
And only the NSA has that key, right? None of the bad guys know how to
use it, right?
One of the most telling points, IMO, is that it took this long for the
NSA backdoor to come to light. That's very scary. It's probably a
combination of: A) Windows security being so laughably bad that you
don't need the backdoor key and B) Anyone who actually figured it out
kept very, very quiet.
B) worries me the most.
-a
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