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From: a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Evidence (was Re: Musing on Constitutionality)
Message-ID: <3189@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 90 01:49:04 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> iceman@Apple.COM writes:
> 
> |> (Curt Sampson) writes:
> |Sounds like a lot of trouble to me.  Why not just take your infomation and
> DES |encrypt it with any of the popular packages that do this (such ask
> PKZIP, which |will compress it while you're at it)?  Then just conveniently
> "forget" the |password.
> 
>   It is one thing to talk about conveniently forgetting your password,
> and quite another thing to say that when the SS guys have you handcuffed to
> your sofa describing your upcoming prison term.  I personally know that in
> such a situation I would find that my memory was working pretty well. If the
> SS KNOWS that the files are encyrpted, they will lean on you.
> Better to disguise them, via your overlay idea or whatever.

This statement saddens me quite a bit.  I was, of course, thinking of
"forgetting" the password while being interrogated in court.  The tactics your
SS use don't seem to be much different from those of various governments in
Central America.

        -cjs    ( Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP )