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06-30-2010, 09:09 AM	#1
Potemkin Omne ignotum pro magnifico Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 20,836 Blog Entries: 3 Thanks: 45 Thanked 760 Times in 531 Posts	TrueCrypt defeats FBI Complex passwords and deniable file system seems to be the trick. (And a court system which cannot "compel" the owner to reveal the password.) http://www.computerworlduk.com/techn...S&newsid=20900 Open source encryption stymies FBI hackers TrueCrypt program defeats police dictionary attack By John E Dunn ShareThis The FBI has admitted defeat in attempts to break the open source encryption used to secure hard drives seized by Brazilian police during a 2008 investigation. __________________ Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill

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