Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv...
by stagbeetle on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:48AM
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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.
Re:Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard driv...
by M_Grey on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:03AM
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^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.
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.