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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
After reading this, I wanted to share a few thoughts on it.
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Wow, what a truly truly odious and sick man
Hope he gets the chair. *kzzzt*
Very sobering
Were your thoughts basically that we shouldn't restrict the lives of our children unecessarily due to the fact that the protection we can give them only extends so far?
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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
What's the problem here? Don't let the authorities try to unlock those files...they are incompetant. Pay some teenager off the street to do it.
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Unfortunately, if he's encrypted the files well, there's little that can be done. Modern computer encryption is certainly not to be taken lightly and is one reason why the US banned its export for so long.
Assuming he's used a modern and complicated encryption scheme, usually the only way around it relies on sloppy execution by the criminal, like not encrypting every partition, or intercepting decrypted data when the computer is in use.
To be honest though, if he knows what he's doing, they don't have a hope of getting at the files in the near/medium term, which is why they're willing to plea bargain for it.
[ 10-16-2006, 06:42 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]