Posted by Kromey at 5:44pm Aug 4 '07So apparently the makers of forensic software believe that merely encrypting your bank records is proof that you have something incriminating to hide. The presence of encrypted or hidden data on your hard disk, according to this view, is in itself incriminating.
Well, seems to me (and I'm not alone here, see link) that virus writers can now incriminate their victims by dumping random data onto their hard drives (because, at least ideally, there is no discernible difference between random and encrypted data). Robert Graham of Errata Security (see link) takes this a step further and provides tips for those of us who believe that access to strong encryption - if we prove that policies like this are ridiculous at best, maybe we can convince the government to stop trying to restrict our right to privacy.
Well, seems to me (and I'm not alone here, see link) that virus writers can now incriminate their victims by dumping random data onto their hard drives (because, at least ideally, there is no discernible difference between random and encrypted data). Robert Graham of Errata Security (see link) takes this a step further and provides tips for those of us who believe that access to strong encryption - if we prove that policies like this are ridiculous at best, maybe we can convince the government to stop trying to restrict our right to privacy.
Link: What you can do about it