Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives, US government says

Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by falcolas on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:47AM (#11713557)

Eh, not so hard. Proxy their internet for a browsing session, and you put thumbnails of images in their cache. If they have any encrypted drive, or any encrypted blobs (could push those into their cache as well), and they're not going to have a great day.

Cached images has been enough to put away more than a few folks - there was also recently a story about using exactly that tactic against a suspected spy.

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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by avar on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @10:30AM (#11713932)

This is really moving the goalpost from the grandparent's comment of "encrypt a zip drive with drivel, toss it in his car and call the cops".

Yes of course you can get an active MiTM session going you can do a lot of shady stuff.

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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by falcolas on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @11:13AM (#11714311)

It can easily be used in tandem with the encrypted drive, to create probable cause to suspect the drive.

And MiTM is far too simple to do. One of my friends was able to rickroll many a person with about $100 of gear. It was always troubling to watch my computer connect to my home network while at a conference, with no real notification to me.

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Re:Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard driv... by johnward on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @11:22AM (#11714388)

This also tends to require that you look at CP in some way. I'll pass on that...

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