To sum up that article: A guy was forced by a judge to decrypt his hard-drive for a child porn case. The ACLU and others feel that being forced to decrypt your hard-drive to provide evidence violates the Fifth Amendment (see http://law.jrank.org/pages/6880/Fifth-Amendment-Self-Incrimination-Claus e.html).
Interesting case. To me, that is a violation of the Fifth Amendment. If I have a notebook that includes supposed proof that I committed a crime, the police have the right to use that against me. Fine. However, they can't force me to tell them where it is or even that I know of its existence, AFAIK. How is decrypting your hard-drive any different? --- Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ -----Original Message----- From: general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of Karthik Poobalasubramanian Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:15 AM To: general@brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Police to get more access to your data? Except when you get forced to reveal you private key to decrypt your data. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10172866-38.html -- Karthik Poobalasubramanian Louisiana Board of Regents kart...@poobal.net kart...@la.gov (225) 341-5855 skype: poobal On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote: > Encrypted data is the only real way I suppose. > > --- > Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ > Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On > Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies > > Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > From: general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of Keith Stokes > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:22 AM > To: general@brlug.net > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Police to get more access to your data? > > It probably doesn't exist. > > On Feb 4, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Tim Fournet wrote: > > > So, what exactly is the "safe from police" way to store data? > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Dustin Puryear <dpury...@puryear-it.com> wrote: > Karthik and I just talked about this yesterday! > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10446503-38.html?tag=digg2 > > Is your web data really safe? > > Uh, no. > > --- > Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ > Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On > Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies > > Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > -- > > Keith Stokes > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
