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Multiple possible scenarios: - He actually gave his password himself as part of a deal with the police which includes this as a cover up. - The police got his

Multiple possible scenarios: - He actually gave his password himself as part of a deal with the police which includes this as a cover up. - The police got his password through another mean they don’t want to disclose and are using this as a cover up. - They really want a list of his contacts and what they were discussing because they are scared than one of them could be tempted to do more than burn a few cars. - France has a more computationally effective way to decrypt these drives which has yet to be released.

jacquesm 3y ago
I would bet on '1'. That's the one that requires the least imagination.
Gasp0de 3y ago
Bitlocker also saves encryption backup keys in the Microsoft cloud where they can probably subpoenad? Then they might have found the password saved on the windows PC somewhere.
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marginalia_nu 3y ago
If I wanted to get at an encrypted hard drive, I'd just tamper with the keyboard and record the password as it was being typed. Hardware keyloggers can be made very tiny with resources and determination.
- le-mark 3y ago
  Does anyone have information or experience with this?
  - marginalia_nu 3y ago
    The USB HID protocol isn't encrypted. You can literally just add a pass through that logs (or transmits) the data. You'd have to check your USB connectors for a small extra dongle every time you boot up with just what is consumer-available[1]. There's also this type of stuff that can be wired into a keyboard[2], obviously harder to detect but a bit more involved to install as well. With a national R&D budget you can without a doubt do much better than both of these. [1] https://www.keelog.com/airdrive-keylogger/ https://www.keelog.com/airdrive-keylogger/ [2] https://www.keydemon.com/en/keydemon/28-1576-hardware-keylogger-module.html#/29-model-usb/54-memory-4mb https://www.keydemon.com/en/keydemon/28-1576-hardware-keylog...

jacquesm 3y ago

I would bet on '1'. That's the one that requires the least imagination.

Gasp0de 3y ago

Bitlocker also saves encryption backup keys in the Microsoft cloud where they can probably subpoenad? Then they might have found the password saved on the windows PC somewhere.

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marginalia_nu 3y ago

If I wanted to get at an encrypted hard drive, I'd just tamper with the keyboard and record the password as it was being typed. Hardware keyloggers can be made very tiny with resources and determination.

le-mark 3y ago
Does anyone have information or experience with this?
- marginalia_nu 3y ago
  The USB HID protocol isn't encrypted. You can literally just add a pass through that logs (or transmits) the data. You'd have to check your USB connectors for a small extra dongle every time you boot up with just what is consumer-available[1]. There's also this type of stuff that can be wired into a keyboard[2], obviously harder to detect but a bit more involved to install as well. With a national R&D budget you can without a doubt do much better than both of these. [1] https://www.keelog.com/airdrive-keylogger/ https://www.keelog.com/airdrive-keylogger/ [2] https://www.keydemon.com/en/keydemon/28-1576-hardware-keylogger-module.html#/29-model-usb/54-memory-4mb https://www.keydemon.com/en/keydemon/28-1576-hardware-keylog...