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But there's always plausible deniability :)
by archimedespi 11y ago
But there's always plausible deniability :)
- jdmichal 11y agoGood luck on plausible deniability when they have your device, enter the password that you told them, and see the device factory reset. The fun part is, regardless of whether or not the device held incriminating evidence, the act of clearing it is still illegal. Even if you cleared the device before it was taken into custody, they could still have a case if they can reasonably show that you cleared it with suspicion that it would be taken into custody. Obviously, that can be difficult to show, depending on the burden of proof required.
- hardwaresofton 11y agoMaybe this is relevant here, district court recently found that forcing suspects to reveal their phone passwords is forced self incrimination: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/forcing-suspects-to-reveal-phone-passwords-is-unconstitutional-court-says/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/forcing-suspects-... (but they might just have you enter them yourself instead :/)
- jdmichal 11y agoForcing, yes. But they can still ask, and handing out a kill-password upon them asking would be tampering.
- hardwaresofton 11y agoOh absolutely agree with the point that was made above -- just saw this story recently and thought it was relevant.
- retrogradeorbit 11y agoYou could argue that they were the party tampering.
- archimedespi 11y agoThe point of plausible deniability is that you have an entire fake partition, with operating system and innocuous data, which looks like it's the only one on the hard drive.
- jdmichal 11y agoThat's not the technique that was proposed at the start of this thread, to which I was responding, and so is entirely irrelevant to my comments.
- archimedespi 11y agoI was saying that a particular technique was more effective than the originally posted one to which I responded.
- jdmichal 11y agoI see. I misinterpreted your intention due your alternative technique never actually being introduced as such until now.
- mindslight 11y agoThe term you're looking for is steganographic filesystem, or steganography in general.
- roel_v 11y agoThere is no such thing as "plausible deniability". It's a nerd's fantasy of how they think things work, starting from the faulty assumption that "law" in the broadest sense of the word is a closed rule-based decision tree.