Plausibly deniable encryption (2020)

Re:Plausibly deniable encryption (2020) by noel99 on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:50PM (#30389565)

It’s chill, I redid my maths my maths A-level and got an A, I basically had a one on one maths tutor for a year in the prison learning complex, came in very useful now I am a software engineer.

The ironic thing is that the police waited about 2 years after they seized the laptop to ask me for the pass phrase. I’m not sure I even actually remembered it as it was so long. PGP Whole Disk Encryption ftw. At the time WDE wasn’t available on the mac and the police got loads of data from my pals text editor temporary files. No one got anything from mine hahaha

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Re:Plausibly deniable encryption (2020) by hwers on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:18PM (#30389939)

Did you have any trouble getting a job with the sentence on your resume? Just curious

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Re:Plausibly deniable encryption (2020) by noel99 on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:22PM (#30389973)

I do not have a criminal record. The wonderful conservative/liberal coalition updated the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974 so my conviction became spent. That said I currently work for a 1000 employee plus employer and they never did a criminal record check but others have.

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Re:Plausibly deniable encryption (2020) by kingcharles on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:40PM (#30393621)

Yeah, I've never known any tech job actually do a background check in the UK. It'd have to be something very specific. Even when I worked for a financial company.

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Re:Plausibly deniable encryption (2020) by xerxesaa on Friday February 18, 2022 @04:54PM (#30391609)

This person is in the UK. The rights afforded to criminals in other places may not be so good.

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Re:Plausibly deniable encryption (2020) by willis936 on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:29PM (#30390036)

I think this is a better story than most one gets asked about a 5 year gap.

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