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If your attacker has a full image of your system why are they bothering with duress?
by EamonnMR 5y ago
If your attacker has a full image of your system why are they bothering with duress?
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- dogma1138 5y agoAlso depending on the jurisdiction depending on the circumstances triggering it can be a felony the same as destroying evidence or tampering with an investigation, if a court compelled you congrats you’ve just earned yourself a contempt of court charge that can last pretty indefinitely. In a jurisdiction that doesn’t adhere to the rule of law you are already screwed. What people often don’t seem to comprehend is that if you get picked up by a “secret police” in the middle of the night it’s pretty much game over already.
- trothamel 5y agoDeleting data, if someone can prove it, also opens you up to Adverse Inference, which means the jury can consider the plaintiff's reasonable inference as to what the destroyed documents contained. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference
- atok1 5y agoBut at this point, we are not caring about 'law' are we? This is used when you are fear for your life because of law enforcement entities.
- dogma1138 5y agoIf you have an actual reason to fear for your life it’s game over, the “Stasi” doesn’t care if they find evidence or not. If it’s the FBI then fearing for your life isn’t exactly part of the equation really.
- bigiain 5y agoBecause it’s encrypted? And these days, it’s common for the decryption keys to exist only in a Secure Enclave type thing that makes extracting those keys many orders of magnitude more difficult that asking you for your password while they hit you with a wrench.