[Gllug] [OT] Technobabble

[Ben Whyte]

Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:

>Today's Guardian, someone called Kitty Ussher bigs up the need for 90
>days:
>
>"Computer hard drives have to be decoded (in one instance, I am told,
>the data involved, if printed out, would be 66,000ft high)."
>
>Surely this is technobabble - would one have any more of a chance
>breaking strong encryption on a hard drive in 90 days than in 14? 
>
>Since it's the Guardian perhaps I should "ask Jack"...
>
>  
>

Badly put by the Guardian but the need is one to be able to study the 
evidence gathered not to decode the data.

Ben
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