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Re: Fwd: HBGary Mirrors?
From: "Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]" <cal.leeming () simplicitymedialtd co uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:11:44 +0000
I'm wondering along the same lines as Thor, based on intent. One of those "don't take the piss or the judge is gonna own you" scenarios that would be tested in court on a per trial basis. Like, if the files were known to contain encrypted info, and if it was proved that you knew the contents of those files, then you would be held liable. @Charles: luckily for me, this is all academic as I've kept as far away as possible from this hbgary thing :P On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Charles Morris <cmorris () cs odu edu> wrote:
Sorry, when I say eligible, I mean "which server would they be allowed to take down by law?". I'm not too hot on the laws of encryption, but I'm sure there issomethingwhich states that hosting encrypted files are not illegal, it'sdistributingthe key which allows you to gain access to those fails, which is actually illegal. *DISCLAIMER: I don't know if the above is true or not, so apologies if Igotthis wrong*Attempt A: Cal, I'm not sure on this point off-the-cuff, however encrypted files should* be indistinguishable from random data, so assuming that even if a given LEE has obtained the key and knows that your distributed data is "illegal", you could be held blameless as you have no feasible way to know what the data was. Attempt 2: You could also consider a key and an algorithm a "transform" for a set of random bits, such that once the transform is applied to those bits it would result in something "bad", so you aren't actually distributing "encrypted" "files" at all.. just random bits :D *DISCLAIMER: The above will PROBABLY NOT hold in court, so apologies if you get jailed for life
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