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I wouldn't be too confident that a government that cracks down on privacy won't crack down on encryption, if it ever becomes widely used.
by JoachimSchipper 17y ago
I wouldn't be too confident that a government that cracks down on privacy won't crack down on encryption, if it ever becomes widely used.
- CWuestefeld 17y agoThe current legal basis for monitoring email in the USA is not that the gov't has a legitimate interest in seeing it, but that it's old data left sitting around, so the owner doesn't have a rational expectation of privacy. If those old messages were still left around, but the bodies were unreadable, the government wouldn't have any basis to demand that they be decrypted, since they've not asserted any authority to it (short of a warrant). To do so would be one heck of a long jump.
- juhgfghjklkjhg 17y agoIt wont need to; There will be an unchangeable default admin password of "password" Updating to the next version will automatically decrypt all your data. The say the disk is encrypted but it turns out that it just XORs 'symantec' with every byte.