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Re:Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Sena... by lifeformed on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @03:43PM (#6054274)
The training is right here:

1) Write some software that destroys your data if you don't login every x hours.

2) Under duress, stall for x hours.

Re:Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Sena... by phaus on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @04:03PM (#6054380)
If they abduct and torture you immediately, the chances of you stalling for x hours is pretty much non-existent. Snowden is in Russia. Arguably, no nation on the planet is better at torturing people than they are, and unlike the U.S. Russia doesn't really give a shit if the rest of the world doesn't like their methods. His interrogation would likely take minutes, not hours.
Re:Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Sena... by lifeformed on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @05:39PM (#6054921)
Well, my point is that there are alternate ways of ensuring the data doesn't get out, not just by being really good at resisting torture.

Other methods:

A) Alternate password that destroys the data.

B) Cyanide capsule in tooth.