This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.

Re:This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first.... by sounds on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @01:34PM (#3828626)

I agree that it's not much of a surprise, but tell me why wouldn't it work?

I don't have to reveal the hidden location and password to my air-gapped private key unless I am in court.

I agree that spending the rest of my life at Hotel Guantanamo isn't my favorite, but if he defies the Federal Gov't's established secret wiretapping, surely he has assessed the possibility of this happening already and he's not afraid?

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Re:This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first.... by excuse-me on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @01:50PM (#3828715)

Who knows the secret key/has access to the system? Just him - in which case what happens to my data if he walks under a bus? Or all the admins/the board/the lawyers?

So a three-letter-agency guy turns up with a SWAT team, you only need one of them to decide to reveal the key with a gun at their head - or with the threat that child porn would be found on his laptop/20kg of heroin would be found in his apartment. Chain = weakest link.

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Re:This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first.... by nitrogen on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @06:27PM (#3829960)

The "weakest link" problem can be ameliorated to some extent by using secret sharing cryptography, so that at least x% of participants must cooperate to reveal the secret key.

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