Cryptography, RIP, Steganography etc (was Re: [Gllug] Editors)

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:16:37PM +0100, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:07:00PM +0100, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> > * David Freeman (freemadi at yahoo.co.uk) wrote:
> > > RIP act! That is why it is needed. The plausable deniabilty aspect of
> > > the StegFS is the main selling point. Having an encrypted filesystem is
> > > fine except that you must give the key or accept 2yrs in prison!
> > 
> > Uh. To the authorities, when you are suspected of certain illegal
> > activities. Sheesh, are we talking child porn or a letter to your bank
> > manager here?
> 
> This being the old "anyone who wants to hide information from their
> government is clearly a criminal" argument then?

As pernicious an argument as "No smoke without fire".

-- 
Bruce

You can fool some of the people all the time, you can fool all of
the people some of the time but you can never fool your mother.
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