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Much safer to assume that a decent nation state can decrypt Truecrypt and a lot of other things. You can hide stuff from your wife, friends or banana Republic c
by onetimemanytime 7y ago
Much safer to assume that a decent nation state can decrypt Truecrypt and a lot of other things. You can hide stuff from your wife, friends or banana Republic countries, but I wouldn't bet against NSA with 30 years in jail.
- treljherthj 7y agoTrue, but not by outright cracking the encryption. They will get your password instead, by implanting your keyboard, putting a camera behind you on the wall, or grabbing you just after you've entered your password.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoGood point. Another thing: even if they can decrypt it, they'd save that for Osama types, not ruin it over a small tax case. Otherwise bad guys would stop using it. Maybe decrypt but not use in court...
- iudqnolq 7y agoOne tool is parallel construction. First they find out what you did through an illegal/classified method, then they use the benefit of knowing the answer to construct a way to figure out the same information legally. For example, an agency illegally taps your phone and find out you'll be driving with something illegal in your car along a certain route. The agency then tells some state troopers to notice $your_car driving unsafely at $location and pull you over for a routine traffic stop and search your car. It's unlikely they'd take even that risk on a tax case, though.
- tootahe45 7y agoThat sounds like effort. Intercepting your next Amazon order for anything that plugs into the pc and loading it up with malware would be better.