You can think what you like, but it is VERY WEIRD for someone to be carting around a randomized disk. Yes, sometimes you write random junk to the disk to obscure old data, but HOW OFTEN DO YOU HAVE SUCH THINGS HANGING AROUND? Chances are that you are either going to DISPOSE of the thing or put it back into service with NEW ORDERED DATA ON IT. You're NOT going to just sit around with a stockpile of randomness.
THE SIMPLE FACT that it makes NO SENSE to have a disk with randomness on it means that you ARE UNDER SUSPICION for having encrypted data.
You can go ahead and try to mess with plausible deniability, but you can be CERTAIN that this kind of game will NOT stand up in court. Especially if you are posting messages like this on the internet and/or have a copy of the truecrypt binary installed on your non-encrypted hard disk somewhere. You can't seriously believe that this wouldn't raise a bunch of red flags, can you?
And face it... the ONLY reason to obscure the FACT that you have encrypted data is because that encrypted data is ILLEGAL and you don't want THE COURTS to know that the data exists. If the data is NOT illegal, then there is no reason to hide the fact that it exists because the ONLY institution that can ORDER the decryption of that data is the COURT.
And no, your girlfriend isn't going to go forensic-nuts and find that you have an encrypted loop filesystem stored in /var/encfs filled with pr0n, so she's no excuse.
And yes, the court KNOWS about this game.
And yes, despite the appearance of randomness, it is virtually trivial to identify the fact that you actually have encrypted data. Especially since you have no means of generating genuine random numbers.
Here is an AMATEUR analysis of ONE FORM of vulnerability.
Just imagine what tricks the NSA has against you. Deniability is a MYTH.
THE SIMPLE FACT that it makes NO SENSE to have a disk with randomness on it means that you ARE UNDER SUSPICION for having encrypted data.
You can go ahead and try to mess with plausible deniability, but you can be CERTAIN that this kind of game will NOT stand up in court. Especially if you are posting messages like this on the internet and/or have a copy of the truecrypt binary installed on your non-encrypted hard disk somewhere. You can't seriously believe that this wouldn't raise a bunch of red flags, can you?
And face it... the ONLY reason to obscure the FACT that you have encrypted data is because that encrypted data is ILLEGAL and you don't want THE COURTS to know that the data exists. If the data is NOT illegal, then there is no reason to hide the fact that it exists because the ONLY institution that can ORDER the decryption of that data is the COURT.
And no, your girlfriend isn't going to go forensic-nuts and find that you have an encrypted loop filesystem stored in /var/encfs filled with pr0n, so she's no excuse.
And yes, the court KNOWS about this game.
And yes, despite the appearance of randomness, it is virtually trivial to identify the fact that you actually have encrypted data. Especially since you have no means of generating genuine random numbers.
Here is an AMATEUR analysis of ONE FORM of vulnerability.
Just imagine what tricks the NSA has against you. Deniability is a MYTH.
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