Re: FileCopy overwrites the existing file

may be issued with a court order to provide your keys, and get some
"unpleasant experience" if you fail to comply with it.

If the key can be physically destroyed, such a court order will be
impossible to comply with.

Exactly - and, at this point, get ready for "unpleasant
experience"........
Just to give you an idea, Blair wanted to make key destruction an
offense in itself, punishable by 2 years in jail He failed, but the
whole story just indicates a general trend.......

Therefore, from
the private individuals's perspective, it is also better to use those
products that simply erase data....

Then, you won't be able to comply with a court order again.


An order to do what???? What is the evidence of data having ever been
present on the disk??? However, in case of encrypted disk the story is
totally different - it would be rather stupid of you to deny that your
data is there, although in encrypted form......


The crypto should be done in the disk controller.

But what about the performance penalties that you are guaranteed to
encounter if you implement encryption at so low level????


Anton Bassov

Pavel A. wrote:
"anton bassov" <soviet_bloke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1165463934.941452.129640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The problem is that these days governments become more and more
intrusive and obnoxious, so that your right to privacy holds...... but
only "apart from the cases specified by the law".

Ah. "Manuscripts don't burn" so to say...

This means that you
may be issued with a court order to provide your keys, and get some
"unpleasant experience" if you fail to comply with it.

If the key can be physically destroyed, such a court order will be
impossible to comply with. In the best case, one can have
a passphrase - which is useless without the key itself.


Therefore, from
the private individuals's perspective, it is also better to use those
products that simply erase data....

Then, you won't be able to comply with a court order again.
Unless, "manuscripts don't burn" :)

The procedure takes zero time
Yes, but what about the time spent on encrypting/decrypting data????

The crypto should be done in the disk controller. There
are several affordable models with external key tokens - usb or something
proprietary. You just pull it out and break, and all the data is gone.
And don't worry for the nosy guys. Vista still seems to leave enough holes for them :-(

Regards,
--PA

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