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Encryption won't help you, since a judge will simply throw you in jail for contempt until you cough up the key or give them a copy of the decrypted data. Hones
by downandout 13y ago
Encryption won't help you, since a judge will simply throw you in jail for contempt until you cough up the key or give them a copy of the decrypted data. Honestly, in this hostile government environment, if you have something worth protecting you need to have a "dead man switch" on your data. Unless you take an action every few days (which you can't if in jail) then your data gets deleted.
- pronoiac 13y agoI may be misreading this, but I think there's a big difference between "being readily accessible to the NSA" and "taking a judge to make it available."
- downandout 13y agoIf, through whatever means, they become interested enough in your data, they can just go judge shopping until they find one that decides that NSA suspicion is enough to issue a search warrant.
- rosser 13y agoTrue enough, but that scales very poorly, while their current approach demonstrably scales rather well. In a game of picking one's battles, that seems like an easy win; I'll worry about contempt charges and rubber hoses some other day.