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Re:Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops by pyre on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @04:01AM (#3504025)
How does preventing the filesystem from writing timestamps solve anything? We're talking about the 'boring partition' having timestamps that suggest that you haven't used it in months (i.e. really old timestamps), when there is probably evidence elsewhere that you have used it (e.g. emails that you've sent since those timestamps).
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Re:Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops by jiggy2011 on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @05:16AM (#3504161)
just write false timestamps to the FS saying it was used more recently?
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Re:Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops by Karunamon on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @10:52AM (#3505251)
Or scramble them altogether. Every write to the filesystem through Truecrypt's driver results in a completely random (but still valid) ctime/atime for that file.

I can't readily think of any Windows processes this would break.

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