[TriLUG] OT: Laptop Hard Drive

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Alan Porter wrote:

>> "give us the passwd or you're going to Gitmo".
>
> I do not have the password. I am delivering this laptop 
> for my employer.

I assume everyone here reads /. but for those that don't 
there's a posting on the limited protection you get from 
encrypted filesystems, including the holes in deniable 
filesystems at

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/19/2011228/full-disk-encryption-hard-for-law-enforcement-to-crack

including a link to an article by Bruce Schnier

http://www.schneier.com/paper-truecrypt-dfs.pdf

The short answer is that your files will be safe, but you 
won't.

"Yes, Citizen, your full disk encryption is just too much 
for us to crack. I guess you're in the clear."

Joe

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