▲ 402 ▼ EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED (mastodon.social) submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 47 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/622792 Comments
[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (4 children) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children) They can snatch a few people, but what if everyone starts doing that? Well designed steganography would not be easy to detect if the authorities don't know what they are looking for. Do they just beat random people to find out if they are sending hidden messages? Okay you caught the person, so what? XCGHJ DFVBN TYGBJ With OTP, it could either be KILL THE EMPEROR or it could be Bring the Condom (something that's embarassing and plausible to want to hide, but not overthrowing the government) or it could be any 15 character value, just think of any plausible thing you could possibly hide, to downplay what the real message is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Deniable encryption like that will be a lifesaver if things get bad enough. Though I'm thinking more the kind where the encrypted content on a computer disk is indistinguishable from free space, and you have multiple passwords that decrypt different parts of the filesystem. That way you can be interrogated and/or beaten, "give up" and unlock your computer (using the decoy password), and still hide any incriminating evidence since those files remain hidden with no way for adversaries to even detect that they exist. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago veracrypt supports that permalink fedilink source parent [–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago Inb4 I get arrested for butt texting. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children) They can snatch a few people, but what if everyone starts doing that? Well designed steganography would not be easy to detect if the authorities don't know what they are looking for. Do they just beat random people to find out if they are sending hidden messages? Okay you caught the person, so what? XCGHJ DFVBN TYGBJ With OTP, it could either be KILL THE EMPEROR or it could be Bring the Condom (something that's embarassing and plausible to want to hide, but not overthrowing the government) or it could be any 15 character value, just think of any plausible thing you could possibly hide, to downplay what the real message is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Deniable encryption like that will be a lifesaver if things get bad enough. Though I'm thinking more the kind where the encrypted content on a computer disk is indistinguishable from free space, and you have multiple passwords that decrypt different parts of the filesystem. That way you can be interrogated and/or beaten, "give up" and unlock your computer (using the decoy password), and still hide any incriminating evidence since those files remain hidden with no way for adversaries to even detect that they exist. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago veracrypt supports that permalink fedilink source parent [–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago Inb4 I get arrested for butt texting. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Deniable encryption like that will be a lifesaver if things get bad enough. Though I'm thinking more the kind where the encrypted content on a computer disk is indistinguishable from free space, and you have multiple passwords that decrypt different parts of the filesystem. That way you can be interrogated and/or beaten, "give up" and unlock your computer (using the decoy password), and still hide any incriminating evidence since those files remain hidden with no way for adversaries to even detect that they exist. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago veracrypt supports that permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago veracrypt supports that permalink fedilink source parent
[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago Inb4 I get arrested for butt texting. permalink fedilink source parent
