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When your opposition can legally order predator strikes on you, imprison you indefinately without charge, torture you in it's own military prisons and secretly
by excuse-me 15y ago
When your opposition can legally order predator strikes on you, imprison you indefinately without charge, torture you in it's own military prisons and secretly ship you off to 3rd world prisons for more torture - then I don't think little legal tricks like reverse canaries are really going to work.
- sounds 15y agoI agree that it's not much of a surprise, but tell me why wouldn't it work? I don't have to reveal the hidden location and password to my air-gapped private key unless I am in court. I agree that spending the rest of my life at Hotel Guantanamo isn't my favorite, but if he defies the Federal Gov't's established secret wiretapping, surely he has assessed the possibility of this happening already and he's not afraid?
- excuse-me 15y agoWho knows the secret key/has access to the system? Just him - in which case what happens to my data if he walks under a bus? Or all the admins/the board/the lawyers? So a three-letter-agency guy turns up with a SWAT team, you only need one of them to decide to reveal the key with a gun at their head - or with the threat that child porn would be found on his laptop/20kg of heroin would be found in his apartment. Chain = weakest link.
- nitrogen 15y agoThe "weakest link" problem can be ameliorated to some extent by using secret sharing cryptography, so that at least x% of participants must cooperate to reveal the secret key.