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This seems like such a contrived scenario. If the police want your info, they just request it from all the tech companies. If they want something on your laptop
by Gigachad 2y ago
This seems like such a contrived scenario. If the police want your info, they just request it from all the tech companies. If they want something on your laptop, they will just arrest you and have you unlock it.
They aren't action movie style disassembling your laptop and installing a key logger on the keyboard ribbon cable. They would need a custom one for every laptop and you could hardly fit something with wireless capabilities in there. When the $5 wrench works fine.
- eecc 2y agoBut if the data is encrypted in the drive they can't either, unless the tech company has deployed a backdoor in their trusted software stack. In this scenario you're somewhat more protected, because the attack vector is just the vendor backdoor rather than the panoply of RCE infesting modern systems, and one would hope that access to the backdoor is closely regulated by laws and judicial oversight. It all goes out of the window (pun intended) when your foe is a soverein actor but let's be honest, all we really want is a decent lock for our front-door.