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NSLs and clones
Obviously, you do not know what a 'national security letter' is, or the fact that you can remove a hard drive, clone it and put it back in less than a couple of hours. Then having physical access to the original computer for the purpose of decrypting it's contents.

Honestly, it's not the NSA you have to worry about, anything the public has, they probably can already break into, it's the crazy fed neighbor who doesn't like your dog or the height of your hedges or the fact you called the local cops on his snot nosed brat or you dated his sister for two weeks that is the real problem.

And thanks to the executive branch, you won't know any of this until they seize your bank accounts, your home and arrest you at work.
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Read my previous posts  John L. Ries | 04/30/08
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re: Proving a negative  Badgered | 04/30/08
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Physical access  Ed Bott ZDNet Moderator | 04/29/08
but are you?  stevey_d | 05/01/08
how about just one  rtk | 05/01/08
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In this case Bitlocker is irrelevant  tombalablomba | 05/01/08
NSLs and clones  engrmerc | 05/05/08
There's only one OS  rtk | 04/29/08
"Brake" into a Windows box  Patronus | 05/02/08
Maybe you should check your facts...  mrlinux | 05/07/08
eh?  rtk | 05/07/08
And how  Altotus | 05/04/08
Why would Microsoft need to create backdoors  voska1 | 04/30/08
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COFEE It is a compilation of publicly available forensics tools  Jeremy W | 04/30/08
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