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I still don't get one thing about this story: >> To make use of these keys, the F.B.I. would have to manually input all two thousand five hundred and sixty ch
by kbart 13y ago
I still don't get one thing about this story:
>> To make use of these keys, the F.B.I. would have to manually input all two thousand five hundred and sixty characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the F.B.I. collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data
Don't FBI have some ultra DPI scanner with advanced OCR software? Let's say they live under a rock, it's still not so hard to manually type ~2k characters using magnifying glass. If so, what was the point to shut down Lavabit AFTER turning in printed keys?
P.S. I still highly respect Lavabit and people behind it, but this point in a story doesn't make sense at all.
- andylei 13y agowhat really happened is that the court then ordered him to turn over the key on a CD, or continue to face the $5k / day fine. so he eventually did turn over the key on a CD
- plorg 13y agoThis assumes that it was printed with a high-dpi printer. From the reports I've read he intentionally chose a font that would be hard for a computer to read. There's also no evidence that he printed it on any special high-dpi printer, so the process almost certainly lost enough information as to make the printed text not-fully-recoverable.