16 Dec
2010
16 Dec
'10
3:21 a.m.
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:09 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 21:50:19 David Olofson
wrote:
A note, the bikers I know do have a saying: "Somebody always is
watching" ... this means that if you just smash somebodies face, there
will be a witness, that you didn't notice.
I'm sure, this saying can be extended to "Somebody always will talk,
especially when there is the offer, to be or not to be in a Mexican
jail ;).
On Wednesday 15 December 2010, at 19.56.04,
Arnold Krille
<arnold(a)arnoldarts.de> wrote:
[...]
Lets take a rational view: Most probably that hard-disk was connected with
crime. And as it was Mexico, it would most probably be drugs. If they really
did manage to break the encryption, someone in the chain would have said
something about "thanks to the fbi we know from that hard-disk"...
Staying rational, I don't think fbi/nsa/cia have enough money to fund years of
research for quantum computing, producing working results capable of cracking
todays hardest encryptions and not have anyone talk. Some months back fbi had to admit that current
encryption is to good for
them. After a year of trying they returned a hard-disk (which Mexican
police asked them to decrypt) admitting they couldn't do anything to get
the data... Went through fefe's blog...
...or maybe the files were just truly random noise from an analog source?
;-)
...or the FBI just *said* they couldn't do it, to lull us all into a false
sense of security. Not that it wouldn't be
possible given enough money, I just don't think they would have managed to
spent enough money on this.
If you speak German, read the blog from udo vetter (lawblog.de) and watch his
talk on the ccc-congress where he (and several people from the audience) gave
every-day testimonials of encrypted hard-discs where law-enforcement didn't
get any valid data from.
I'll do so, ASAP :).
Have fun,
Arnold