TOR protected the spies it was made for, only because there was a substantial amount of other, less interesting, traffic.
The mere act of straying outside the norm is what makes you vulnerable. Protecting the data itself is secondary to making the data seem uninteresting to begin with.
There is one way which may reduce the risk. Build your whole system in RAM including OS. When totally power off, everything is volatilized. To lower the cost of RAM, one could just put the OS and service in RAM, but let the encrypted data in drive with key in RAM/RAM-disk.
The difficulty here is building a OS in RAM. There are some tricks but most of them need a host which may contribute to vulnerability.
This doesn't work as well as you'd expect.
I know Queensland law requires you to unlock your phone for a cop, or you face prison time. I'd expect there's similar laws for disclosure of encryption keys.
I don't know if I'm willing to "make it hard for them" if that means facing jail time.
https://www.hallpayne.com.au/blog/2019/january/mobile-phone-...
>Judge North’s comments do make it clear, however, that if you answer questions where you acknowledge ownership of a mobile phone, then there is a potential for self-incrimination.
Compounding this is the advent of “hate crimes”, or rather the utterance of forbidden words. Now a days you can be hauled off in jail in many countries simply by expressing a wrong opinion, let alone hosting a service where others are allowed to do the same.
You mean authoritarian world. Most people couldn’t name one tenet of fascism regarding finance, labor, etc. Fascism is financially left wing but socially right, which is the opposite of liberal capitalism—regardless of whether the capitalistic govt is authoritarian. yes I realize most people use it as a buzzword. And no I don’t want an authoritarian govt.
In America at least, a search of this nature has to be very narrow in order to be valid, even the secret ones.
In reality it's an end-run around the court system. If the government officially penalized them for not complying, various parties would have standing to assert their rights. So the punishment isn't officially tied to the failure to submit, but the threat is still there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla...
"Anyway, I've come to ask whether you could do a favor for us."
And it's the organised crime that is associated with mafia tactics...