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I wonder if he had an encryption scheme that deleted the data in the event of n password failures and also something of legal value like bitcoins on the drive.
by elif 10y ago
I wonder if he had an encryption scheme that deleted the data in the event of n password failures and also something of legal value like bitcoins on the drive. Perhaps, then he could argue that knowingly attempting to log in using potentially incorrect passwords constitutes undue harm.
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- contravariant 10y agoSuch a scheme could probably be circumvented by making copies of the encrypted file (or the entire disk), or denying the decryptor write access etc.