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Coming up with real fake evidence is a lot harder than just coming up with a random blob that the cops think is evidence the suspect is hiding. E.g. are you re
by avar 10y ago
Coming up with real fake evidence is a lot harder than just coming up with a random blob that the cops think is evidence the suspect is hiding.
E.g. are you really able to carefully craft a filesystem image that you're sure has no metadata that proves the innocence of the suspect?
- falcolas 10y agoEh, not so hard. Proxy their internet for a browsing session, and you put thumbnails of images in their cache. If they have any encrypted drive, or any encrypted blobs (could push those into their cache as well), and they're not going to have a great day. Cached images has been enough to put away more than a few folks - there was also recently a story about using exactly that tactic against a suspected spy.
- avar 10y agoThis is really moving the goalpost from the grandparent's comment of "encrypt a zip drive with drivel, toss it in his car and call the cops". Yes of course you can get an active MiTM session going you can do a lot of shady stuff.
- falcolas 10y agoIt can easily be used in tandem with the encrypted drive, to create probable cause to suspect the drive. And MiTM is far too simple to do. One of my friends was able to rickroll many a person with about $100 of gear. It was always troubling to watch my computer connect to my home network while at a conference, with no real notification to me.
- johnward 10y agoThis also tends to require that you look at CP in some way. I'll pass on that...