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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by davideous on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:43AM (#11712742)
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by mattraibert on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:02AM (#11712849)
In case you're curious, this is often called rubber-hose cryptanalysis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis

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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by ommunist on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:00AM (#11713204)
In Russia, if you are curious this is often called rectal high temperature cryptanalysis. There is manual.

http://lurkmore.to/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B...

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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by unlinker on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:45AM (#11713106)
I wish HN software would automatically start flagging comments that only contain a link to an xkcd strip.
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