[PLUG-TALK] EFF encourages you to encrypt your hard drive

[Denis Heidtmann]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Hedlund <daniel at digitree.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 08:53, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
>>
>> A competent forensics team would do a raw copy (i.e., the equivalent
>> of using dd) before they let you attempt the decryption.
>
>
> ...or let you go.  They have a copy of your data and, if you're not
> easily coerced, there are better ways of getting your password than forcing
> it out of you.  Bug your house with a sound or video monitoring device while
> you're being detained (do you normally work near a window?) and you'll give
> up your credentials easily enough.  Heck, even planting a bug in your
> physical device or bootloader.  I'm surprised they don't do this more often
> really (bug your bootloader and just let you go).  At some point the cost of
> brute forcing a password dwarfs the cost of ever cheapening
> micro surveillance devices.
>

Wouldn't a savy person with incriminating stuff expect that and put
the drive on another machine?

-Denis