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why not hand over all the keys and say you were hacked and get everyone to change keys?
by jlebrech 13y ago
why not hand over all the keys and say you were hacked and get everyone to change keys?
- debacle 13y agoThe law doesn't work like that.
- jmaygarden 13y agoThen they would ask for the keys again. If they thought you did it on purpose, then it's another--probably much worse--contempt charge.
- Confusion 13y agoExactly. They don't need to prove you weren't hacked two or three times: they just need to convince a judge that it's unlikely. And the next step, setting up a regular key-changing scheme, simply results in you have to provide new copies automatically every time the keys change.
- hyperbovine 13y agoI highly doubt law enforcement would look kindly on that. Simply shuttering the business "fell just short of a criminal act".
- asparagui 13y agoBecause then the NSA, who totally hasn't been recording these emails for the past ten years, can retroactively decrypt all of them?