Re:Digital security and due process: A new legal framework f...
by catdog on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:24AM
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Encryption can't save you entirely, there is still a ton of metadata being produced which is most of the time at least as interesting as the content [1]. Avoid the cloud and decentralize as much possible. As a bonus decentralizing helps to avoid oligopolies and monopolies.
Big, purely money driven cooperations will follow the path of the least resistance so it's no surprise that they automate LE requests away in the long run. As most of the "internet giants" essentially make money by spying on their users they have the basic infrastructure in place already.
[1] 'We Kill people based on metadata' some former CIA/NSA director once admitted.
Re:Digital security and due process: A new legal framework f...
by secfirstmd on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:37AM
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Cryptomator is also great for working with Dropbox, Google Drive etc https://cryptomator.org
As Snowden said, good encryption is a part defense against this. VeraCrypt http://veracrypt.org works nicely with DropBox, while SyncDocs https://syncdocs.com encrypts Google Drive.
Richelieu would have had a ridiculously easier time if he could select any six lines from everything an honest man had ever written. Using encryption to make this harder could be wise.