You can despise the MPAA without downloading movies. Just as you can desire privacy without committing any crimes.
Ever copied and pasted an article published by someone else, and saved it to a file?
During your online conversations, have you ever written something negative about another person?
Do you have any data that you are contractually obligated to keep a secret, possibly relating to agreements signed with employers or clients?
Note that even data in your browser cache can be used against you[1].
Under a microscope, everyone is a criminal.
[1] http://news.cnet.com/Police-blotter-Child-porn-in-Web-cache-...
The police raided the house of a veteran here in town a few months back for possession of small amounts of marijuana. The veteran opened fire and during the ensuing shoot out one officer died and five more were sent to the hospital. The news continuously talked about this veterans limited criminal history.
Ultimately he had a speeding ticket and had been charged with something like jay walking which was dismissed. That was his limited criminal history.
I completely agree that if you look at someone close enough, almost all will have limited criminal histories.
Saving an image or an article to your hard drive is not illegal, but redistributing it can be. Writing negative stories about other people is (in practically all cases) not illegal, either. Nor is having secret information.
Unless the majority secretly has an ungodly amount of child porn in their web cache I don't know about, I am not very inclined to believe that everyone is a criminal under a microscope.
Sure there are some, and when you consider the population of the world is several billion that "some" can become "many" without really saying anything about the majority.
That may be a matter of definitions. While I wouldn't say I have any unlicensed music, I might if you count my YouTube cache file.
You could enter one password and have it boot into a boring Windows XP environment while the true password would boot to your actual environment with all your secret files.
It's Jan 2012. What do you think is going to happen when they see that the one you gave up the code to hasn't been touched since July 2011?
Does Truecrypt have an option to not record date/time stamps on volumes, or better yet, scramble them?
Timestamps are going to be at the FS layer or higher, not much Truecrypt can realistically do about that..
I can't readily think of any Windows processes this would break.
That's a bit of a leap, really.
Also, Truecrypt's deniable encryption here doesn't seem like it would help, since they're talking at the computer level. Presumably, a power on or hard drive password. Assuming there's only one volume, you put that one in and the attacker has the keys to the kingdom.
Besides that, most averages joes wouldn't go through this kind of trouble. If you're running in opposition to a ruling power who might, say, launch a missile at you from 30,000 feet while you're in foreign territory (not naming any names here), then you probably already know to cover your ass.
On the other hand, an average joe thinking that they're cute by giving up the password to the concealed volume will only land a contempt charge when the file access times are checked.