US Case: Infinite Jail Contempt for Disk Crypto, 5th Amndmnt, All Writs, FileVault, Freenet CHKs
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/27/2357253/child-porn-suspect-jailed-in... http://thehackernews.com/2016/04/decrypt-hard-drive.html https://www.scribd.com/doc/310741233/Francis-Rawls-Case http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/child-porn-suspect-jailed-for-7-m... Amici Curiae by EFF and ACLU A Philadelphia man suspected of possessing child pornography has been in jail for seven months and counting after being found in contempt of a court order demanding that he decrypt two password-protected hard drives. The suspect, a former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, has not been charged with any child porn crimes. Instead, he remains indefinitely imprisoned in Philadelphia's Federal Detention Center for refusing to unlock two drives encrypted with Apple's FileVault software in a case that once again highlights the extent to which the authorities are going to crack encrypted devices. The man is to remain jailed "until such time that he fully complies" with the decryption order. The government successfully cited a 1789 law known as the All Writs Act to compel (PDF) the suspect to decrypt two hard drives it believes contain child pornography. The All Writs Act was the same law the Justice Department asserted in its legal battle with Apple.
2016-04-28 22:25 GMT+03:00 grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/27/2357253/child-porn-suspect-jailed-in... http://thehackernews.com/2016/04/decrypt-hard-drive.html https://www.scribd.com/doc/310741233/Francis-Rawls-Case
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/child-porn-suspect-jailed-for-7-m...
In the 60's/70's it was "the communist threat/spying for the bloody russians", now it's "child porn/terrrrorism"... they change their masks (that always seem so "beautiful"), BUT they can't change their ugly faces. As to the crypto theme - we knew from the beginning of all this shit about pseudo war on terror/pedophiles -vs- privacy -> that this is what gonna happen. And that's only the beginning.
On 4/29/16, Александр <afalex169@gmail.com> wrote:
In the 60's/70's it was "the communist threat/spying for the bloody russians", now it's "child porn/terrrrorism"... they change their masks (that always seem so "beautiful"), BUT they can't change their ugly faces.
The "distrust, spy on, and rat out your neighbor theme" is always popular, be it for commies or whatever. A handful of years ago they recruited postal workers for that role too. Now... https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/letter-details-fbi-plan-for-secretive-an... Of the plans put forward by the federal government to identify and stop budding terrorists, among the least understood are the FBI’s “Shared Responsibility Committees.” The idea of the committees is to enlist counselors, social workers, religious figures, and other community members to intervene with people the FBI thinks are in danger of radicalizing — the sort of alternative to prosecution and jail time many experts have been clamoring for. But civil liberties groups worry the committees could become just a ruse to expand the FBI’s network of informants, and the government has refused to provide details about the program. The Intercept has obtained a letter addressed to potential committee members from the FBI...
On Apr 29, 2016, at 1:55 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/29/16, Александр <afalex169@gmail.com> wrote: In the 60's/70's it was "the communist threat/spying for the bloody russians", now it's "child porn/terrrrorism"... they change their masks (that always seem so "beautiful"), BUT they can't change their ugly faces.
The "distrust, spy on, and rat out your neighbor theme" is always popular, be it for commies or whatever. A handful of years ago they recruited postal workers for that role too. Now...
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/letter-details-fbi-plan-for-secretive-an... Of the plans put forward by the federal government to identify and stop budding terrorists, among the least understood are the FBI’s “Shared Responsibility Committees.” The idea of the committees is to enlist counselors, social workers, religious figures, and other community members to intervene with people the FBI thinks are in danger of radicalizing — the sort of alternative to prosecution and jail time many experts have been clamoring for. But civil liberties groups worry the committees could become just a ruse to expand the FBI’s network of informants, and the government has refused to provide details about the program. The Intercept has obtained a letter addressed to potential committee members from the FBI...
This sounds exactly like how the inform-on-your-neighbor system worked in Stalinist regimes and in fascist Germany before that. There were never enough actual secret police to keep an eye on everyone - the system relied on the willingness of average citizens to vociferously out their neighbors and friends who may have spoken or implied a line of thought outside the state approved ideology. -- John
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