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People should use smartcards more. When stuff hits the fan you can just destroy it. https://github.com/philipWendland/IsoApplet https://github.com/philipWendla

• mindslight 11y ago
  Then there's destruction of evidence, complete with a physical totem to illustrate your witchcraft - imho this idea is going the wrong way. By their very nature (treacherous computing), smartcards will enable more user-hostile capabilities than user-empowering ones. Not that they can't be useful for some properties - a custom applet could implement a time-delay dead-mans switch iff you can count on them remaining secure against government thugs. The right way is to implement and encourage popular operating systems to adopt n-volume steganographic storage. Then there's no discernible difference between a truthful and lying "I've given you all my keys". While this won't really help your low-status undesirable that the government is just looking for justification to purge, it will cause social change when upper class people are in the same position. (The common retort to steganography of "then they just torture you" is really just a reversion to the underlying truth from the dawn of society, exposing the modern farce of "the rule of law". Which means things either actually get reformed, or we have another bog-standard revolution to overthrow the unaccountable thugs.)
  • xaduha 11y ago
    People should use smartcards more in general, regardless of circumstances and for perfectly legal stuff. It's not hard.