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This paper is from a few years ago, but I think that for folks who aren't quite as in to the net/info security side of things, it's better to think of "rubber h
by peri 12y ago
This paper is from a few years ago, but I think that for folks who aren't quite as in to the net/info security side of things, it's better to think of "rubber hose attacks" as a polite way to say "having to fight too many subpoenas from a more wealthy adversary".
Hopefully doesn't apply to your businesses, but it sure delayed a lot of things in the 80s and 90s before the EFF/CDT/and so on helped settle a lot of the law that we take for granted now.
(No I do not work for the EFF, CDT, or any other TLA. I just think that programmers and painters both need to be cognizant of copyright)
- rhino369 12y agoNothing will save you from discovery in a civil case. You either hand the data over, perjure yourself and hope nobody has evidence the data existed, or get sanctioned then the court make an adverse inference that you the evidence must have been bad and can use that against you.