Once upon a midnight dreary, while Mathew P. pondered weak and weary over
many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...:
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> On 2006-08-15, [H]omer spake thusly:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Police decryption powers 'flawed'
>>>
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>>> | The government faces criticism over plans to give police powers to
>>> | make suspects produce readable copies of encrypted computer
>>> | evidence.
>>
>> Waste of time.
>>
>> Those serious about securing data, can just use plausible deniability
>> techniques, such as steganography or hidden containers to obfuscate
>> encrypted data, e.g. conceal hidden documents in a pr0n collection, or
>> obscure classified data in secondary (hidden) containers, within a
>> primary container holding plausibly subversive (but still legal)
>> conspiracy theory material.
>>
>> I'm all for thwarting the terrorists, but why should everyone else's
>> privacy be compromised because of a few ragheads? Just don't let them
>> into the country in the first place; problem solved.
>>
>>> | But some peers, academics and cryptographers say the plans are
>>> | flawed and risk being abused.
>>
>> The police abuse their powers? /shock/ That could *never* happen,
>> could it?
>>
>>> | "You do not secure the liberty of our country and value of our
>>> | democracy..."
>>
>> /choke/
>>
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> "Those who give up liberty for security will have neither liberty
> nor security"
> -unknown
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Some say Washington
some say Jefferson
some say Garfield (the President, not the cat)
...
going by the above it could be attributed to any of 43 people and still be
wrong.
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