Encrypted hard disks trustworthy?
Greegor
alt.privacy.anon-server, alt.privacy, misc.writing
to
alt.support.child-protective-services,alt.privacy.anon-server,
alt.privacy, alt.thebird.copwatch,misc.legal
Let's get Dan Sullivan's opinions on both sides.
Dan?
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:42:39 +0100 (CET), George Orwell wrote:
Law abiding, innocent people should always conduct themselves as
being 'persons of interest', because this is what EVERY American, as
well as other country citizens, are seen as being by their
governments. The bad guys will usually always slip up and get caught
in the end, if by nothing else, by arrogant police threats during
interrogations. The odds of being unjustly prosecuted by our
unscrupulous justice system, that pursues everyone for anything,
only out of the necessity of getting a notch on their gun, are
greatly in the favor of those law abiding, innocent, honest citizens
that have decided to NEVER cooperate with the authorities while they
pursue a case against them. The trial must be left for court, not
allowing yourself to be tried by cop or prosecutor in a little white
room in their own offices. In America, you are innocent until proven
guilty, not guilty until you answer police and prosecutor question to
prove that you are innocent.
The key phrases are (swallow you fears and stand fast no matter
how nervous you might get):
1. Officer, my lawyer has informed me that the only information you
need from me is on my driver's license.
2. I exercise my right to be silent.
3. When subsequently asked questions in front of a lawyer, you answer:
I have nothing to say.
4. In front of a grand jury or at trial, you answer: I exercise my 5th
amendment right against self incrimination.
(Now please, malign and trivialize these suggestions and suffer the
consequences)
26 Dec 2009 13:21:30 Tiger Would <theoreticalfo...@aol.com> wrote:
If you think you can jerk a judge around with patently bullshit
answers
that are the equivalent of saying "Prove it!" while giving him the
finger, think again.
Judges are not stupid. They are cranky, conservative old men,
infatuated with their own estimate of their abilities, with a
jaundiced
view of the rest of mankind, and drunk on the power they have
exercised
over other's lives, true - but they aren't stupid.
And courts are not just about old men in fusty wigs, funny clothes,
and
oak paneling. Behind that veneer lies power, naked and raw, with
very,
very sharp teeth. Cross them and that power will be brought to bear
very forcefully indeed.
If you find yourself in court you have already lost - big-time! Even
if
found innocent it will be a sentence of bankruptcy with perhaps your
marriage, your career, and your future in tatters. That's the upside.
So make sure you don't find yourself there. But, if you do, I suggest
presenting a very submissive and very respectful demeanor. Unless, of
course, you'd like to go out in a blaze of glory, a hero to us all, as
you begin your long sentence :-)
--
tiger