Encryption Saves Peeping Tom From Jail

[jellico]

[citation][nom]andesdhdfbdf[/nom]@JellicoI agree, however I take it one step further. I don't even know my own passwords, so even if I was beaten/given some type of truth syrum I still couldn't tell them anything. How is this done? ...maybe I shouldn't say P.S. my passphrases are about 31 characters long[/citation]
Actually, I'm intrigued. Send me a private message, I'm always interested in other people's ideas for improved computer security.

I use really long pass-phrases myself (typically a jumbled of phrases that are mispelled, spelled phonetically, substituting numbers for letters, etc.), and I always encourage my clients to do the same.

 

[Guest]

if you want to get really paranoid about it maybe he was streaming the video to some off site recorder in case the police ever crashed his place. The encrypted computer files were just to throw them off the trail!

 

[ravewulf]

Creepy

 

[anamaniac]

If you want to protct your informatioin, encrypt the fuck out of it, and in case anything happens, destroy your key.
They couldn't get it if they wanted to.

Though we will always see some type of abuse, I do believe in an uncrackablle encryption that has no intentional backdoor (having a backdoor in the first place completely defeats the purpose).

 

[tanderskey]

so he did 33 days and gets 2 years probation for "attempting to visually record" one his roommates?

i guess that's illegal in AUS? the guy sounds a bit pathetic, sure, but i bet as long as he split the royalties fairly nobody wouldve complained.

i'd be interested in hearing what he was using to edit all that footage together, too. i mean, if he uses interesting encryption then maybe he uses interesting post production tools too?

cops i know (at the local level) say they often dont need or even attempt to break encryption to prove illegal activity. its about relationships and transfer of money. if these AUS cops were a bit more patient, watched and listened longer, perhaps they couldve really got their man. so instead of getting him for "attempting to record" they couldve got him for "really recording" which i would hope is at least a week longer in the slammmer.

certainly not the crime of the century.