Comments on: US Really Owns Your Data Now!

By: Jinesh Doshi

Jinesh Doshi — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:42:40 +0000

Thanks for your valuable comments.

By: Bogwitch

Bogwitch — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:04:20 +0000

That’s quite possibly true as I have yet to see a proper implementation of one time pad. The concept (I hesitate to use the word algorithm) of one time pad *IS* unbreakable.

By: Jinesh Doshi

Jinesh Doshi — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:36:17 +0000

Bogwitch,

What I understadn form here is that no tool is fool proof.

By: Bogwitch

Bogwitch — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:22:53 +0000

Jinesh,

The best encryption, and unbreakable, is One Time Pad. The weaknesses of a one time pad are introduced with the key selection. As for a tool, there are several tools that use a one time pad, the problem is that most (all I have found) seem to want to generate key material without using a true hardware RNG and therefore are flawed from the outset.

By: Jinesh Doshi

Jinesh Doshi — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:32:10 +0000

Which is the best encryption tool?

By: razzman

razzman — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:33:45 +0000

It’s really pathetic that the government can do ANYTHING at all they want to. “The land of the free”…yeah, right! I wouldn’t be suprised if this wasn’t a prelude to eventually doing the same thing with anybody’s information coming through the net in or out of the U.S. I know if I had the money to do so I would move to a different country and be done with all the corrupt politicians & the rest of them.

It needs to be made more publicly aware, although that probably wouldn’t matter either unless it’s election time.

Wonder what would happen if everybody would fill their hard drives with junk info and let them waste their time sifting through it or better yet fill their computers with “virus research” material…wouldn’t be our fault if they infected their systems with our “private” data right?

Well, I’m gonna stop now because the more I think about how the governments treats us, it just pisses me off even more. I wish the EFF and the rest who are on our side the best of luck!

By: S Briesemeister

S Briesemeister — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:58:54 +0000

I’m a US citizen, about to complete my education. I’ve travelled a lot and hope to travel more, for business and pleasure.

I understand my government’s concerns, but I think they fail to recognize the impact of their decisions. I worry we are quickly isolating ourselves.

To me it seems, as far as business is concerned, I could pack and ship my laptop with encrypted filesystems to my destination, travelling separately from it - unless I’ve missed some news that they’re inspecting those too.

For personal travel, it seems the only means of securing my data is to obscure it behind encryption, while allowing the system to *appear* usable without it - i.e. setting up a manually-mounted encrypted volume that stores my own data, while allowing basic function of the system without that volume being present. Truecrypt serves this purpose well.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:11:31 +0000

Sad, very sad. Customs officers are committing espionage on a grand scale and are backed by their government and all in the name of ‘trying to make this a safer place’. It will only result in giving terrorists more fuel and reasons to commit terrible acts against the US. Apparently the Bush administration isn’t busy enough and will create problems when they run out of ‘legal’ reasons to police the world.
Just sick and indeed just another reason to cancel a trip to that specific part of the world.

By: ZaD MoFo

ZaD MoFo — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:50:41 +0000

It’s difficult to measure stupidity with a yardstick but, by the numerous solutions to bypass thoses searches, this behaviour just seem a power trip for a nation on the borderline of control loss. To peek inside laptop, at random or from profile referee, US border provoque situations where they would obtain by “suspicious objections” a self approval to further search and aurgment ther suspects database.

This is a common control trip. They have targetted your valuables. Oh yes it does matter what’s inside your data because it’s a free way to acquire them legally but in essesce, this is to have you bent to ther rules.

Be smart and make the necessary so they do not have your data because it’s a game where they decided to win for any reason.

You loose because you play. Just dont play. Dont play thier game.

By: NNM

NNM — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:49:22 +0000

USA has reached fascism. This only makes it worse.
for you American people, revolt, protest, get thrown in jail for it! Get tortured for conspiracy and anti-patriotism! *waves flag*