OT: "enhanced interrogation" (was: Re: HackFest Series: TrueCrypt is Now Detectable)

Jim March 1.jim.march at gmail.com
Fri May 1 14:21:21 MST 2009


On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Mike Schwartz <mike.l.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, so *** that's *** what the phrase "rubber hose decryption" means;
> in some previous post (probably recently - in the parent thread?) that
> phrase was used but I thought maybe it was some FOSS tool that I was not
> familiar with.

Heh.

Yeah, as ghastly as the topic may be, the plain fact is that passwords
stored in your "personal wetware" are vulnerable to that particular
"security hole".

Security and encryption discussions have to encompass the full threat,
and that's definitely one of 'em.

It's even been discussed on XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/538/

Jim


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