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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by brokenmachine on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @02:52AM (#27525629)
>If the court finds encryption headers on your disk

Encryption with plausible deniability will not have readable headers. It will appear to be completely random data.

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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by bccdee on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:34PM (#27533164)
Yeah, that's my point. A proper plausibly-deniable system will be indistinguishable from a disk which has been wiped, to the point that no court can reasonably accuse you of hiding files on it.
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