Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid [ENGLISH]

Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by late2part on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:58PM (#9615996)

If indeed Uber personnel actively encrypted their data after it was seized, this brings up an interesting question!

If your property is stolen and taken without your permission, and you can control it - why aren't you entitled to destroy it?

I suppose it depends on the legality and force of the order to seize; but if it did not include an order to the owner, I posit they were within their natural rights to delete their data.

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by greenyoda on Thursday May 28, 2015 @12:16AM (#9616038)

Property being seized under a legitimate search warrant is very different from property being stolen. Trying to hide property or documents from a legal seizure can result in criminal charges such as obstruction of justice.

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by akhatri_aus on Thursday May 28, 2015 @02:07AM (#9616306)

And if it's not stolen and seized using a legal warrant and you're not permitted to control it?

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by spacehome on Thursday May 28, 2015 @12:15AM (#9616037)

The really clever way to encrypt your drives is to make the passphrase for the drive decrypt a very small (512-bit) header that contains the decryption key for the rest of the drive. Then wiping the drive consists of just erasing those critical bits quickly.

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by contingencies on Thursday May 28, 2015 @12:48AM (#9616113)

Except that erasure on modern drives rarely actually erases things...

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by cnvogel on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:44AM (#9616608)

Hence it is advisable to store the encryption key somewhere where erasure was properly accounted for during design, e.G. a TPM (trusted platform module).

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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by namlem on Friday May 29, 2015 @01:54PM (#9626194)

Natural rights are fictional.

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