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Re: [Telecom] If Your Hard Drive Could Testify ... RadicalModerate 01-08-2008
Posted by RadicalModerate on January 8, 2008, 4:42 pm
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> Sidebar
> If Your Hard Drive Could Testify ...
[...]
> Rummaging through a computer's hard drive, the government
> says, is no different than looking through a suitcase.

> One federal appeals court has agreed, and a second seems ready to
> follow suit.
> ...

>
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/us/07bar.html?ex=1357362000&en=d0caa6c9bacf76ed&ei=5090

So what do you think Customs will do if they spot a "TrueCrypt"
container; make you give up the passphrase or security file to it?
TrueCrypt has a feature where you can specify any filespec[1] as the
encryption key :) Keeps out the casual snoops anyway.

[1] What Microsoft calls a "well-formed pathname"

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Posted by Ron on January 13, 2008, 3:27 pm
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radicalmoderate@attnn.com (RadicalModerate) wrote:
>So what do you think Customs will do if they spot a "TrueCrypt"
>container; make you give up the passphrase or security file to it?

The courts have ruled on this. The government can't force you
to provide the key- it violates the fifth amendment.
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9834495-38.html?tag=nefd.blgs
Note that this is true only on entering the U.S. Other countries
may differ. For instance, British law requires you to provide the
pass phrase on their demand.

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Some security software has both a normal and a "Duress" key: if anyone
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Posted by Dave Garland on January 14, 2008, 8:55 pm
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It was a dark and stormy night when radicalmoderate@attnn.com
(RadicalModerate) wrote:

>So what do you think Customs will do if they spot a "TrueCrypt"
>container; make you give up the passphrase or security file to it?
>TrueCrypt has a feature where you can specify any filespec[1] as the
>encryption key :) Keeps out the casual snoops anyway.

TrueCrypt (which is free and open source) also will let you create a
container that contains another hidden container within it, so you have
two sets of files, decoys and "real" files. The decoy passphrase
provides access to the decoy files, with the rest of the container
appearing to be empty. The real passphrase opens the second container
and ignores the decoy files. According to them, there is no way to even
detect the existance of the second container, without the real
passphrase.

Dave


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