> Reliance on FDE more or less made the DOJ's case against Ross Ulbricht, for instance. I was under the impression that the FDE used by Ulbricht complicated th

> Reliance on FDE more or less made the DOJ's case against Ross Ulbricht, for instance. I was under the impression that the FDE used by Ulbricht complicated things a lot, and took special measures to get around, and that they were purely lucky to even be able to do so, and he compromised sensible operational security to allow them to do so. The story goes that they got him in a public place, distracted him momentarily, while someone else swiped the notebook off his desk making sure not to close the lid and kept it from auto locking over time by continuously remaining active with it.