| Encryption Encrypting the data isn't protecting torrent users from the MPAA/RIAA at all. All it does is keep your ISP from determining what kind of traffic you are pushing through your connection. Your IP is still visible on the other end thus traceable to you.
I do feel it's none of the governments nor my ISP's business who I email or what websites I visit. With that in mind, I also encrypt a lot of my traffic with tor and use encrypted IM. I have nothing to hide, but it's still my private information. In America, the ISPs really are not doing too much yet to threaten privacy or lock down traffic. I don't like my google searches being archived, because I've done some searches that are private, so I use tor when I use google most of the time.
I'll worry when the US government tries to make illegal such 99.9% untraceable services such as TOR. My guess the excuse will be to stop terrorism or perverts who like to look at naked pictures of kids, but the ultimate goal will be the control of information. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by texans20:I'll worry when the US government tries to make illegal such 99.9% untraceable services such as TOR. My guess the excuse will be to stop terrorism or perverts who like to look at naked pictures of kids, but the ultimate goal will be the control of information. All I have to do is supeona/discovery your encryption keys, or else I will keep you in jail until you give them up for contempt of court. |
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1 edit | said by patcat88:said by texans20:I'll worry when the US government tries to make illegal such 99.9% untraceable services such as TOR. My guess the excuse will be to stop terrorism or perverts who like to look at naked pictures of kids, but the ultimate goal will be the control of information. All I have to do is supeona/discovery your encryption keys, or else I will keep you in jail until you give them up for contempt of court. What does that have to do with anything? Besides, there are ways around that too. I forgot the term but we talked about it in a college class once. Basically, it is encrypting data inside of an encrypted drive. If a person was ever forced to give a key, then the key for the first drive without the sensitive data is given. I use Truecrypt to hold an Excel file I have with all my user names and passwords along with account numbers and credit card numbers I have. I saw the option there but never messed with it.
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»www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume.php
Really neat stuff, almost CIA/NSA type secrecy on a person's own computer. In American courts, the burden of proof is on the prosecution. There is no way to prove a hidden volume exists on an encrypted drive. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Doesnt seem like it, seems like any computer forensics person would check for it. If they notice that with the password you gave them, not all the data was read or they dont have what they think you have they can say that you have to give up the hidden volume key whether it exists or not in real life if they dont find what they are looking for (since truecrypt's hidden volume requires that the bad side not know you are doing a hidden volume plus the 1st truecrypt volume must have innocent decoy data that is upto the bad side to figure whether the decoy data is innocent or not, if bad side figures decoy data is a decoy, they demand hidden volume key).
Home made stenography algorithims with the user having to remember something about the home made algorithim + offset + encryption password to retrive data seems to be the best, since NSA can just try every stenography product made on your data but if you made your own, their screwed. |
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