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They probably do. Having only "the terrorists" using encryption would make them much easier to spot. Encrypted traffic from your IP could become probable cause
by superuser2 11y ago
They probably do. Having only "the terrorists" using encryption would make them much easier to spot. Encrypted traffic from your IP could become probable cause for a search warrant.
- jules 11y agoYou can easily hide encrypted data in other data.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI wonder if they could see through that given the inherent randomness of encrypted data. In such a world, "random is resistance". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE6RtzwVdHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE6RtzwVdHI
- tormeh 11y agoHow easy is it to tell encrypted and compressed material apart? There would be little structure in both, I think.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoYou're right, I forgot about that. Since you brought it up, I wonder if encryption and compression aren't both instances of a common mathematical phenomena. They seem very similar to each other.
- naveen99 11y agoNo. You can have a general purpose encryption algorithm , but not a general compression algorithm. Encryption generally requires increasing data size. Compression requires decreasing data size and is not possible in the general case.
- sandmansandine 11y agoAs I understand it they don't exactly need a search warrant currently. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/20/leaked-nsa-doc-says-it-can-collect-and-keep-your-encrypted-data-as-long-as-it-takes-to-crack-it/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/20/leaked-...
- Lawtonfogle 11y ago>Encrypted traffic from your IP could become probable cause for a search warrant. We might as well say that not consenting to a search is probable cause for a search warrant.