Judge Orders woman to decrypt her laptop

[UndrgroundRider]

Well this thread is winding down. After 5 pages of bullshit, all we've established is that nobody who has posted in this thread has a clue how encryption works.

Some guys got close. Most did not.



To all my fans, thank you, I couldn't have done it without you. You were the wind beneath my wings. We had some laughs, we hand some cry's, but it's time to hang up my:

[cancer man]

This is how you break encryption in less than a minute.
First you have the owner present.
Second you drill holes thru one of their hands.
Third you put a blow torch to their feet.
Voila you have the code.

Then you call WCB and say there was an occupation injury.

[sabad66]

lol, I still can't believe how long that went on.

Underground wins troll of the year award (so far anyways - it's only january)

[frizzlefry]

Going back to the article....I totally saw this happening.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...tten-password/
A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant’s attorney said Monday.

The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with a court warrant while investigating alleged mortgage fraud. Ruling that the woman’s Fifth Amendment rights against compelled self-incrimination would not be breached, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ordered the woman in January to decrypt the laptop.

“It’s very possible to forget passwords,” the woman’s attorney, Philip Dubois, said in a telephone interview. “It’s not clear to me she was the one who set up the encryption on this drive. I don’t know if she will be able to decrypt it.”

She has "forgotten" the password. She wins.

[Sugarphreak]

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[chkolny541]

hahahaha, brilliant!!!!

"Oops i forgot!"

[LollerBrader]

Here's another for those who think that 16384bit encryption makes their data inaccessible:

http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/


Like I said, if the front door is hardened, you find another way to get in....

[UndrgroundRider]

Originally posted by LollerBrader
Here's another for those who think that 16384bit encryption makes their data inaccessible:

http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/


Like I said, if the front door is hardened, you find another way to get in....

Bumping a year old thread to post a useless hack? Do you realize the hack you posted requires the computer to be booted with the password entered for it to work? And that if you had that kind of access in the first place you could hot dump the RAM and grab the encryption keys from there? (Which is what they're doing in the exploit, except they're doing it using a firewire exploit instead of physical access to the RAM.)

Also exploits like that are discovered and made public every day. It's really not that ground breaking.

[LollerBrader]

Originally posted by UndrgroundRider


(Which is what they're doing in the exploit, except they're doing it using a firewire exploit instead of physical access to the RAM.)

Which makes it more accessible, and less disruptive.

Given that you appear to know it all, it's surprising you can't see the advantages of one method over the other.

[UndrgroundRider]

Originally posted by LollerBrader

it's surprising you can't see the advantages of one method over the other.

Yea, but we're not talking about the best method to hot dump RAM. You want to talk about this:

Originally posted by LollerBrader
Here's another for those who think that 16384bit encryption makes their data inaccessible:

Please, explain to me how this makes my data less secure.

[alloroc]

What i thought cracking encryption was easy ... all you need is the common passwords ...

Jump to 3:19

/sarcasm