On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:09 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 21:50:19 David Olofson wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010, at 19.56.04, Arnold Krille > > <arn...@arnoldarts.de> wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Some months back fbi had to admit that current encryption is to good for > > > them. After a year of trying they returned a hard-disk (which Mexican > > > police asked them to decrypt) admitting they couldn't do anything to get > > > the data... Went through fefe's blog... > > > > ...or maybe the files were just truly random noise from an analog source? > > ;-) > > > > ...or the FBI just *said* they couldn't do it, to lull us all into a false > > sense of security. > > Lets take a rational view: Most probably that hard-disk was connected with > crime. And as it was Mexico, it would most probably be drugs. If they really > did manage to break the encryption, someone in the chain would have said > something about "thanks to the fbi we know from that hard-disk"... > > Staying rational, I don't think fbi/nsa/cia have enough money to fund years > of > research for quantum computing, producing working results capable of cracking > todays hardest encryptions and not have anyone talk.
A note, the bikers I know do have a saying: "Somebody always is watching" ... this means that if you just smash somebodies face, there will be a witness, that you didn't notice. I'm sure, this saying can be extended to "Somebody always will talk, especially when there is the offer, to be or not to be in a Mexican jail ;). > Not that it wouldn't be > possible given enough money, I just don't think they would have managed to > spent enough money on this. > > If you speak German, read the blog from udo vetter (lawblog.de) and watch his > talk on the ccc-congress where he (and several people from the audience) gave > every-day testimonials of encrypted hard-discs where law-enforcement didn't > get any valid data from. I'll do so, ASAP :). > > Have fun, > > Arnold _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev