Good summarization Dustin. Also, if cops have a warrant to the house and no keys to the locked closet, won't just break the lock than force someone to give them the keys? Shouldn't the same thing apply to decrypting the hard drive?
When its a child porn case, the grey area just gets wider. -- Karthik Poobalasubramanian Louisiana Board of Regents kart...@poobal.net kart...@la.gov (225) 341-5855 skype: poobal On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
