Re:EFF: forced disclosure of encryption password violates 5t...
by pavel_lishin on Saturday July 09, 2011 @04:43PM
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> A safe is a physical object that contains other physical objects. It can be forcefully open.
A computer is a physical object. A hard drive contains data, physically, much like papers in a safe contain data, physically.
And it can be forcefully opened, too - it's merely a matter of magnitude of effort. Cracking a safe could take hours or days, cracking a password could take millennia. It should not be my problem that the government has locksmiths with drills on staff, but not supercomputers capable of breaking encryption.
A computer is a physical object. A hard drive contains data, physically, much like papers in a safe contain data, physically.
And it can be forcefully opened, too - it's merely a matter of magnitude of effort. Cracking a safe could take hours or days, cracking a password could take millennia. It should not be my problem that the government has locksmiths with drills on staff, but not supercomputers capable of breaking encryption.