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What if I have just erased my USB-stick with good dose of /dev/random and haven't actually formatted it to any filesystem yet. Good encryption is indistinguisha
by aper 13y ago
What if I have just erased my USB-stick with good dose of /dev/random and haven't actually formatted it to any filesystem yet. Good encryption is indistinguishable from randomness, so could they blame me for not giving up password and jail me for carrying randomness in my pocket?
- robmcm 13y agoI think they will use that to put you away, if they don't believe you...
- acdha 13y agoIn many countries they can jail you for failure to disclose encryption keys – for example, in the UK you could spend two years in jail unless you could convince the court that there was in fact no encrypted data on that USB key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingd...
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y agoIf they did arrest you for that, but you aren't really Jack Bauer you could at least get points on hn for writing the story of "How I was arrested for carrying random data on my usb stick"