Passwords ruled as not protected by 5th amendment?

[29582351c3]

What if you used a hypercomplex password which would be 'inadvertently' destroyed by the police during collection of evidence? For example, the first 2 letters of each file in your cabinet. Should any of them be out of order the password would no longer exist. Then you could claim you no longer have the password and are unable to decrypt the drive.

[psychic stalker]

29582351c3

What if you used a hypercomplex password which would be 'inadvertently' destroyed by the police during collection of evidence? For example, the first 2 letters of each file in your cabinet. Should any of them be out of order the password would no longer exist. Then you could claim you no longer have the password and are unable to decrypt the drive.

Self-destructing encrypted thumbdrives exist for precisely this purpose.

But it may not protect you from being held in contempt of Court for either destruction of evidence, obstruction of Justice, or just good old Pissing Off the Judge.

[The20]

psychic stalker

29582351c3

What if you used a hypercomplex password which would be 'inadvertently' destroyed by the police during collection of evidence? For example, the first 2 letters of each file in your cabinet. Should any of them be out of order the password would no longer exist. Then you could claim you no longer have the password and are unable to decrypt the drive.

Self-destructing encrypted thumbdrives exist for precisely this purpose.

But it may not protect you from being held in contempt of Court for either destruction of evidence, obstruction of Justice, or just good old Pissing Off the Judge.

You'd have to input the wrong password 10 times before anything happens and they will so ******** you over if you try that.

Wait:

Quote:

If your Ironkey is lost, you can restore from a secure backup to a new Ironkey in minutes

Yeah, well, maybe not ...



I had this absurd idea of using a stream of curses as password, so if anyone asks me ...
Da Police: What's your password?
Me: "********!"
Da Police: Oh, ya think yer be funny, do ya, punk? Well, me little friend that be bat here wants to have a little talky talk with you!
Me: s**t ...

[Sitwon]

One of the talks the EFF gave was about encryption and privacy issues and the 5th amendment. Another talk was about "anticipatory obstruction of justice", which is destroying evidence so that it can't be used against you. The law is pretty vague but if they can show that you deleted a file because you thought it might be used against you then you're guilty. The best defense, supposedly, is to have a retention policy so that rather than deleting it because it might be evidence, you're deleting it because that's what you do for all files that are over a certain age. Get in the habit of deleting all the cruft on your drives according to a policy and then it's easier for you to argue that it wasn't anticipatory obstruction of justice but just consistently following industry best practices.