Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal

Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by M_Grey on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:10AM (#13919820)

More and more I'm convinced that the only solution is data destruction on a fail-deadly system. Like a warrant canary, if it's your default operation, you should be alright. As I always add though, don't keep your family photos on that drive.

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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by walrus on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:35AM (#13919896)

I don't understand what a fail-deadly drive would look like. Can you give an example?

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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by stagbeetle on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:48AM (#13919936)

I'd imagine you'd have to do a task (like inputting a passcode) every so often or the drive would be made inoperable.

For SSD's it'd be as simple as an automatic single pass overwrite and a new encryption key. For HDD, the hyper-paranoid could rig their drives with small explosives to fracture the platters.

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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by M_Grey on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:03AM (#13922785)

^This. In fact you can buy readymade solutions now which physically destroy the NAND gates on the input of a code, or as you say, if you fail to input a code within a time limit.

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Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv... by M_Grey on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:06AM (#13922822)

An example I've given here before is: http://securedrives.co.uk/

There are other solutions though, and of course you can make your own if you feel confident about it.

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