If you really want to drive them crazy, encrypt a bunch of random number tables and watch them try to decrypt them into something meaningful. ;)
-----Original Message----- >From: Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> >Sent: Aug 31, 2009 9:47 PM >To: Cavers Texas <texascavers@texascavers.com> >Subject: [Texascavers] Big-Brother related > >Surely the authority of the customs people to inspect vessels or >vehicles applies only to those that have been outside the United States? > >Anyway, there was an amusing thing in the news a few months ago. Some >guy came into the US from Canada and somehow the customs people >learned that there was kiddy porn on his laptop computer and arrested >him. However, the files were encrypted, and even the feds were unable >to break the encryption and prove it. Courts ruled that the defendent >could not be required to give up the key to the code. (I suspect this >might have been a deliberate test case, with the offending image >deliberately out where the customs inspector would see it.) > >Drive them crazy. Get PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and encrypt lots of >perfectly innocent stuff on your computer. Don't use some wimpy >encryption facility that comes with your operating system; it is >probably not NSA-proof. (Actually, of course, unless you deliberately >do something to make them suspicious--not recommended--, it is >extremely unlikely that they'll ever check.) It would be really nice >if it was easy and convenient to encrypt everything, including all >voice communications. But almost nobody really cares about his >privacy. Witness all those people who travel around with their cell >phones turned on, making it possible to track them in real time. >--Mixon >---------------------------------------- >A fearless man cannot be brave. >---------------------------------------- >You may "reply" to the address this message >came from, but for long-term use, save: >Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu >AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Visit our website: http://texascavers.com >To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com >For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
