There are so many ways I could address this, most of them rude. So I will simply say RTFM, anybody who uses those tools properly has already addressed those issues, including duress.
Never Depend Solely on Somebody Else for Your Security, there are many tools that can be used on almost any platform. I use TrueCrypt, PGP, & TOR for various purposes. Depending on the circumstances even ROT-5/13/18/47 can be useful (especially when combined with other tools), there are even "Online Encryption Tools" that can be used cross platform.
Now as others have pointed out "You are depending on the crypto people who designed and wrote the proofs for the algorithms you are using" but if you are using/layering multiple methods and not depending on a single service/tool it greatly reduces the chances of any one person being able to crack it.
Pentagon Spokesman [and complete idiot] Geoff Morrell conducted a daily [misinformation] briefing at the Defense Department. He called on the website WikiLeaks to [cave in to an illegitimate request made by our government and] return all of the classified war documents in their possession and delete them from the website.
Apparently the Department of Defense does not care about the First Amendment, after all the US Supreme Court stated in its ruling on the Pentagon Papers that "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." Besides as others have pointed out that the US Government has no jurisdiction to use force of law to do anything about it.
From Wikipedia: Wikileaks is hosted by PRQ, a Sweden-based company providing "highly secure, no-questions-asked hosting services." PRQ is said to have "almost no information about its clientele and maintains few if any of its own logs." PRQ is owned by Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij who, through their involvement in The Pirate Bay, have significant experience in withstanding legal challenges from authorities. Julian Assange has said that the servers are located in Sweden (and some other countries) "specifically because those nations offer legal protection to the disclosures made on the site". Being hosted by PRQ makes it difficult to take Wikileaks offline. Furthermore, "Wikileaks maintains its own servers at undisclosed locations, keeps no logs and uses military-grade encryption to protect sources and other confidential information."
Also from Wikipedia: Julian Paul Assange ... is an Australian internet activist and journalist best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website. Assange was a physics and mathematics student, a hacker and a computer programmer, before taking on his current role as spokesperson and editor in chief for Wikileaks. Assange has said that "you can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism"
So good luck with that, and even if they caved and removed the files from the WikiLeaks website it would not 'delete' them from the internet at large or from the computers of people who have already downloaded the information.
I guess that just goes to show that this administration's talk of transparency and accountability is just talk (not that I am particularly surprised), and our government is just as untrustworthy as ever.
"AEI was a content publisher from 2000-2009 (it's now out of business), and during those 9 years, it had zero revenues. This could make it hard for AEI to garner much judicial sympathy over any harm to its business."
Now I realize Mike was quoting Goldman on this, but I just looked and there is an 'Asia Economic Institute (AEI)' website still up at http://www.asiaecon.org/
From the 'About Us' Page: "The Asia Economic Institute (AEI) began in 1999"
From The 'Contact Us' Page: "Correspondent Office ... Wilshire Blvd ... Los Angeles, CA"
Looks like the same company to me, are we sure they are out of business? I would hope they are with the bull they are trying to pull, but the website seems to still be active. Of course they could have paid for the hosting in advance and just never bothered to take the site down.
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What? Faking Evidence Not A Good Idea? Why?
{/Sarcasm}
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Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?
/FacePalm
/HeadDesk
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Re: Re: Said it before and I will say it again...
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The Land Down There?
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Said it before and I will say it again...
Now as others have pointed out "You are depending on the crypto people who designed and wrote the proofs for the algorithms you are using" but if you are using/layering multiple methods and not depending on a single service/tool it greatly reduces the chances of any one person being able to crack it.
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3 Strikes = WarDriving Win
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Re: (Defense Department Press Briefing Video)
Apparently the Department of Defense does not care about the First Amendment, after all the US Supreme Court stated in its ruling on the Pentagon Papers that "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." Besides as others have pointed out that the US Government has no jurisdiction to use force of law to do anything about it.
From Wikipedia: Wikileaks is hosted by PRQ, a Sweden-based company providing "highly secure, no-questions-asked hosting services." PRQ is said to have "almost no information about its clientele and maintains few if any of its own logs." PRQ is owned by Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij who, through their involvement in The Pirate Bay, have significant experience in withstanding legal challenges from authorities. Julian Assange has said that the servers are located in Sweden (and some other countries) "specifically because those nations offer legal protection to the disclosures made on the site". Being hosted by PRQ makes it difficult to take Wikileaks offline. Furthermore, "Wikileaks maintains its own servers at undisclosed locations, keeps no logs and uses military-grade encryption to protect sources and other confidential information."
Also from Wikipedia: Julian Paul Assange ... is an Australian internet activist and journalist best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website. Assange was a physics and mathematics student, a hacker and a computer programmer, before taking on his current role as spokesperson and editor in chief for Wikileaks. Assange has said that "you can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism"
So good luck with that, and even if they caved and removed the files from the WikiLeaks website it would not 'delete' them from the internet at large or from the computers of people who have already downloaded the information.
I guess that just goes to show that this administration's talk of transparency and accountability is just talk (not that I am particularly surprised), and our government is just as untrustworthy as ever.
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Techdirt Cafe?
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Re: TSA claims their machines can't store images
Read the comments on that one! LOL!
Also TSA Concedes Body Scanners Store and Record Images
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Are companies ready to manufacture the drug in sufficient quantities? Unknown but likely, somebody would pick it up.
Gensymze is refusing to license to them? Yes, obviously.
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Somebody is missing...
I thought this was his thing? ;)
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General Mills Meet The Streisand Effect!
http://doug hgirl.com/
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Are they "Out of Business"?
Now I realize Mike was quoting Goldman on this, but I just looked and there is an 'Asia Economic Institute (AEI)' website still up at http://www.asiaecon.org/
From the 'About Us' Page: "The Asia Economic Institute (AEI) began in 1999"
From The 'Contact Us' Page: "Correspondent Office ... Wilshire Blvd ... Los Angeles, CA"
Looks like the same company to me, are we sure they are out of business? I would hope they are with the bull they are trying to pull, but the website seems to still be active. Of course they could have paid for the hosting in advance and just never bothered to take the site down.
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ROFLMAO - Got to agree with Lord Helmet on this one!
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