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

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 00:28:45 UTC 2012


I suppose that encrypting itself could be considered destruction of
evidence in some bizarre way of looking at it.  A bank robber who
wipes his fingerprints off the combination lock is destroying
evidence.  This is making my head hurt.

-Denis

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Russell Johnson <russ at dimstar.net> wrote:
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> On Mar 9, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Robert Miesen wrote:
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>> Not a very good idea in my opinion, since that would likely be
>> interpreted as "destruction of evidence" and possibly "impeding an
>> investigation". It could lead to some felony charges too....
>
> Considering that eating the joint the cop has told you to drop is considered destruction of evidence, you are most likely right.
>
> However, I bet you people going down that path don't really care what other charges they gather, and if the destruction gets them out of some of the charges, they feel a sense of WIN!...
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> Russell Johnson
> russ at dimstar.net
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