mdm-adph: you are exactly right, this is basically never a problem. I'm do happen to encrypt my whole disk so my laptop is worthless to simple thieves motivated by data, but I would be very unlikely to be in a situation where my key is being forcibly demanded of me. And were that situation to come to pass, I wouldn't be performing a brave resistance, I like most others, would probably reveal the hidden partition long before I thought I was drowning. Even that is irrelevant because...
This scheme is supposed to work by making you lost in a crowd, but the point is that if you are the one they want the encrypted data from, the fact that your neighbour has a 1GB of noise on their disk is irrelevant. You are being asked to prove you don't have the password (as was pointed out on the odd Slashdot thread about this, burden of proof lies with the UK citizen, not the UK government). I think it's also worth noting that Ubuntu already, legitimately, has a range of crypto algorithms and tools installed by default (from kernel modules, to SSL, to gpg, to LUKS and its gnome integration). The installer has a one click option to encrypt your entire disk. -- General "rubberhose" vulnerability https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148440 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
