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[SpontaneousOrder]

You need to take the tin foil hat off.

If he ever has to do business with a chinese clientCo, then it might not be tin-foil-hat stuff.

[NickFitz]

So if you were clever you would use steganography to hide something naughty in porn, then when you need to send it, send it as encrypted torrent

Shave a permie's head, tattoo the message on it, wait for the hair to grow back, then tell him the perilous trip across enemy lines is a promotion.

[MicrosoftBob]

One of the reasons that MI5 / MI6 / the police weren't in favour of the Digital Economy Act was that they worried that it would encourage more people to use encrypted traffic. Beforehand, if someone was doing something really naughty, then they would be more likely to encrypt the data, so there was a much smaller pool to target. Now, many more people are using encrypted traffic, so the "security services" don't know whether you're doing something really naughty, or just torrenting porn.

So if you were clever you would use steganography to hide something naughty in porn, then when you need to send it, send it as encrypted torrent

[VectraMan]

I don't believe in no win scenarios

Hours will seem like days, Jim. Wink wink. It'll be ready in three days. Wink wink.

I hope the encryption is more secure than Spock's best effort.

[scooterscot]

That's cheating

I don't believe in no win scenarios

[stek]

Ah but I'm not in the UK :O)

In any case communications are encrypted.

But not the data itself?

[TheFaQQer]

I strongly suspect that to the NSA and GCHQ, that just acts as an indicator of what to look at more closely

One of the reasons that MI5 / MI6 / the police weren't in favour of the Digital Economy Act was that they worried that it would encourage more people to use encrypted traffic. Beforehand, if someone was doing something really naughty, then they would be more likely to encrypt the data, so there was a much smaller pool to target. Now, many more people are using encrypted traffic, so the "security services" don't know whether you're doing something really naughty, or just torrenting porn.

[NickFitz]

Ah but I'm not in the UK :O)

That's cheating

In any case communications are encrypted.

I strongly suspect that to the NSA and GCHQ, that just acts as an indicator of what to look at more closely

[scooterscot]

As GCHQ tap all the routes out of the UK and pass the data to the NSA, you'll need to move to Norway along with your data

Ah but I'm not in the UK :O)

In any case communications are encrypted.

[NickFitz]

As GCHQ tap all the routes out of the UK and pass the data to the NSA, you'll need to move to Norway along with your data

[MicrosoftBob]

As long as I can keep my Faraday underpants.

C'mon the reality is more like this

[scooterscot]

You need to take the tin foil hat off.

As long as I can keep my Faraday underpants.

[minestrone]

You need to take the tin foil hat off.

[scooterscot]

The only way to keep data secure is to never connect to a network of any kind and never connect any device to it

Relying on anything else to be private is a fools game, especially if you think the US or anyone else will respect Norwegian Privacy laws

Agreed. However the need exists. Also data held in Norway is unlikely to be so easily accessed as that kept in the US. Especially encrypted data.

[MicrosoftBob]

The only way to keep data secure is to never connect to a network of any kind and never connect any device to it

Relying on anything else to be private is a fools game, especially if you think the US or anyone else will respect Norwegian Privacy laws