Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It (2012)

Re:Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Do... by malandrew on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:42PM (#7918683)

But they could never use such a technique against a savvy tech user who knows that the erase command deletes the internal encryption key on an SSD. Using the technique in any court case would be tantamount to publicizing it and destroying the reputation of the hard drive manufacturer in question, as everyone would know a back door exists in their devices.

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Re:Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Do... by Canada on Thursday June 19, 2014 @07:24PM (#7918820)

Never say never.

There would always be doubt, and some kind of parallel construction would surely be used to protect the secret technique.

I could see it being used in hundreds of cases per year for a decade before anyone could prove anything. Just like ubiquitous internet surveillance. And even when irrefutable proof surfaces, the very same people who staunchly said "that could never happen" will say "of course, how could you even be surprised?"

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Re:Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Do... by rasz_pl on Thursday June 19, 2014 @09:52PM (#7919180)

1 Parallel Construction

2 National security preventing your lawyer to ever see any evidence against you.

Both already being used in US.

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Re:Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Do... by autokad on Thursday June 19, 2014 @08:24PM (#7918993)

don't forget US intelligence agencies don't need courts anymore.

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