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turtle
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Formerly turtle2472
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
 
2012-01-24, 09:52

Right, that's the big issue here. It's not about can the authorities gain access on their own. In the case of the door (or safe really) they would simply bypass the locking mechanism and access the contents. However this is without the accused providing anything (assuming there is a warrant of course).

They can have my HDD and do what they will with it. They can crack the encryption all they want. There is nothing to stop them from controlling the hardware and working to "bypass the locks" to get to the data.

See, if encryption wasn't so good this wouldn't be an issue. The problem is that encryption is stronger than the Feds ability (in a reasonable time) to crack. This means they don't like it an want to force the information from me that might (or might not) incriminate me.

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Last edited by turtle : 2012-01-24 at 10:12.
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