Re: Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop - CNET News

[William Warren <hescominsoon () emmanuelcomputerconsulting com>]

On 3/19/2009 5:01 PM, Craig S Wright wrote:
> The intentional destruction of evidence is a crime.
>
> US law varies by state, but as an example, Australian federal law and 
> Victorian state law would make this a criminal act that would itself 
> be punished and also result in an instruction for the jury to treat 
> the now unaccessable evidence as holding definstive proof of what you 
> are being checked for in the first place.
>
> Your strategy makes you a criminal. It does not gain any benifit.
>
> Regards,
> Dr. Craig S Wright LLM. GSE-Malware...
>
> On 18/03/2009, at 20:04, Aarón Mizrachi <unmanarc () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > On Sábado 07 Marzo 2009 18:14:51 Shailesh Rangari escribió:
> > > Steve,
> > >
> > > I agree that their is a real possibility that a said user may forget
> > > the password owing to numerous reasons,
> > > But I am not aware of any technique that can prove beyond a reasonable
> > > doubt that the user has really forgotten his password or is pretending
> > > it to avoid a sentence.
> > > Seems like the case is bound to set a precedent in the interpretation
> > > of this law. Any which ways it would be worthwhile to observe whether
> > > the US courts follow a similar course of action as their UK
> > > counterparts.
> >
> > two factor authentication with micro-sd memory card that you preserve 
> > all the
> > time with you, and can be eated when you feel angry, or can be 
> > incinerated if
> > you smoke it on a cigar, or simply drop it. this sd memory card will 
> > contain
> > bootstrap and encrypted key for two-factor cypher.
> >
> > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Cigar_tube_and_cutter.jpg 
> >
> > (Over 200 celsius degrees!!!)
> >
> > Then, the hardrive will only contain: RANDOM DATA.
> >
> > This is plausible?, this could be insulting for the judge, but, you must
> > allegate that before the raid, you do an "cat /dev/urandom > 
> > /dev/sda1" for a
> > mantainance pourporse from a live cd... (i really didit before sell my
> > harddrive to prevent credit card and other private info leakeage).
> >
> > Look at:
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/08/hard-drive-security-which 
> >
> >
> > This is plausible. You didn't consider your hard-drive as evidence 
> > before the
> > judge starts, because you never didit anything barely legal.
>
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considering the violation of the 5th maenment here i'd do the same 
thing....the judge's order is unconstitutional and therefore illegal and 
unenforceable.

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