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True, 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, o

• onetimemanytime 7y ago
  Good 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 ago
    One 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 ago
  That sounds like effort. Intercepting your next Amazon order for anything that plugs into the pc and loading it up with malware would be better.