[aklug] Re: I find this statement a bit worrisome

From: captgoodnight captgoodnight <captgoodnight@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue Dec 08 2009 - 11:26:36 AKST

ssh over tor
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2 cents,
--eddie

> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:48:30 -0900
> From: adamb@glaven.org
> To: joshua@eeinternet.com
> CC: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] Re: I find this statement a bit worrisome
>
>
>
> Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Arthur Corliss said something like:
> >
> >> This isn't a question about morality or ethics, it's a question about
> >> a constitutional right to privacy.
> >>
> >
> > [citation needed]
> >
> > Protection against unlawful search and seizure? Yup, but constitutional
> > right to privacy? Unless I'm forgetting my constitution (which is
> > entirely possible, it's been a while since I read it through), it's not
> > in there. If you are putting information into a public forum
> > (Facebook, Wave, etc), then you have no expected privacy. If they are
> > poking into your e-mail, well, then, that's still an issue the courts
> > have not made 100% clear. Yes, it's "private communication," but it's
> > going over lines somebody else owns, so...caveat emailor. :) PGP FTW!
> >
> >
> >
> Wasn't there a case recently where they deemed that the encryption keys
> weren't "protected speech" and that they had to turn it over to the
> authorities? Encryption FTL!
>
> I'm not sure what I'd do in an instance where I had my laptop siezed
> (which has an encrypted disk) and they threatened to put me in the clink
> if I didn't turn over the encryption key. I've mused before that if I
> were to take a laptop on a flight out of the country, to wipe and
> re-install my laptop's OS and put a ton of 'lorem ipsum' files on there.
>
>
>
> --
> Adam
>
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