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From: gtoal@gtoal.com (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Hard drive security for FBI targets
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1993 20:21:09 +0000
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From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
>separate locations to gain credibility. If they are seized and you are
>compelled to decrypt it, you simply explain that you are an amateur
>cryptologist playing around with one time pads, and that the first
>file is the pad for the second. They XOR the two files, and sure
>enough, out pops a copy of "War and Peace".
So, judging from recent history, at this point they drop the original
charges, preemptively find you guilty of copyright violations, and seize
your computer, your home, and your financial reserves under federal
forfeiture laws.
Ah no - what *really* happens is that they turn up at the court with
*another* file which when exored with your document gives up the famous
E911 document :-) [And I tell you, some judges would fall for it...]
G
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