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qasdfdsaq · 22-10-2013, 13:15

Indeed, however most people may know the *password* but not the *key* to a truecrypt container - the latter being randomly generated 4096 bit unintelligible garbage. Hasn't stopped some idiots trying to force people anyway.

Thing is, ISP logging is mainly there for one reason only and that is for the authorities - ISPs themselves cannot even access the data without the same sort of involvement as would be required to force you to disclose your encryption keys. Well, some sneaky ISPs do but that's a different sort of data logging...

Point being, if you've done something bad enough to warrant anyone getting a court order to retrieve data the ISPs have logged about you, you've done something bad enough to warrant the authorities also forcing you to hand over your passwords and encryption keys, whether it's actually practical or not. So again, it doesn't give you any legal protection from the authorities and it doesn't give you protection from anyone else, because nobody else can access the data to begin with anyway.

22-10-2013, 13:15	#18
qasdfdsaq cf.mega poster Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,207	Re: ISP data collection and retention policy Indeed, however most people may know the password but not the key to a truecrypt container - the latter being randomly generated 4096 bit unintelligible garbage. Hasn't stopped some idiots trying to force people anyway. Thing is, ISP logging is mainly there for one reason only and that is for the authorities - ISPs themselves cannot even access the data without the same sort of involvement as would be required to force you to disclose your encryption keys. Well, some sneaky ISPs do but that's a different sort of data logging... Point being, if you've done something bad enough to warrant anyone getting a court order to retrieve data the ISPs have logged about you, you've done something bad enough to warrant the authorities also forcing you to hand over your passwords and encryption keys, whether it's actually practical or not. So again, it doesn't give you any legal protection from the authorities and it doesn't give you protection from anyone else, because nobody else can access the data to begin with anyway.