When I was running servers at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) a few years back the whole university got blocked by Japan and a large chunk of Asia because of spam being remailed through our servers.
Let me tell you, the s*** hit the fan so fast that the servers were all properly locked down within a few hours. In the mean time after a lot of grovelling and apologizing to the appropriate overlords we got allowed again.
Just look at how people start to get all pale, sweaty, and cranky when their email is down. Email is the heroin of the masses...
Different countries have taken all kinds of approaches to this from banning crypto, to forcing people to use key registration authorities, to simply ignoring it.
One interesting approach is to sentence people who won't give up their keys to the same sentence they would get if convicted of the crime they are being investigated for.
FYI no need to contact google for a forensic computing tech like me to see what you've been googling for.
All your Google, Yahoo, and other searches are easily found in your index.dat file (in or below your temp internet folder if you are using IE).
I just have to run a quick grep and unless you've deleted and then over-written your index.dat file it's all there for me to seize in plain text... Usualy takes about a minute and a half...
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When I was running servers at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) a few years back the whole university got blocked by Japan and a large chunk of Asia because of spam being remailed through our servers.
Let me tell you, the s*** hit the fan so fast that the servers were all properly locked down within a few hours. In the mean time after a lot of grovelling and apologizing to the appropriate overlords we got allowed again.
Just look at how people start to get all pale, sweaty, and cranky when their email is down. Email is the heroin of the masses...
This is similar to France's approach.
For a survey of crypto law you may want to look at Bert-Jaap Koos's web site http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/ .
Different countries have taken all kinds of approaches to this from banning crypto, to forcing people to use key registration authorities, to simply ignoring it.
One interesting approach is to sentence people who won't give up their keys to the same sentence they would get if convicted of the crime they are being investigated for.
Screw magnetic tapes, in Canada we use duct tape.
But be warned - "Duct tape is like the Force - it has a light side and a dark side, and it binds the Universe together". It is eternal!
Just "bind" your data to the tape and it will last forever. You can also repair your lunar module with it if you don't mind losing a bit of data...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
FYI no need to contact google for a forensic computing tech like me to see what you've been googling for.
All your Google, Yahoo, and other searches are easily found in your index.dat file (in or below your temp internet folder if you are using IE).
I just have to run a quick grep and unless you've deleted and then over-written your index.dat file it's all there for me to seize in plain text... Usualy takes about a minute and a half...