Fwd: [funsec] Idaho Killer Holds Encryption Key to Laptop Mystery

[Brian Loe]

Sorry: "We're not talking about how long you're gonna live, we're
talking about how slow you're gonna die."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202677/quotes

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From: Brian Loe <knobdy at gmail.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2006 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [funsec] Idaho Killer Holds Encryption Key to Laptop Mystery
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>
Cc: Dennis Henderson <hendomatic at gmail.com>, funsec at linuxbox.org


On 10/20/06, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> The problem is that it doesn't work out that way.  As one of the comments
> to the article I cited says:
>
>   "The TTB hypothetical assumes that the suspect has information sufficient to
>   defuse the bomb, and that she will provide that information when tortured. It
>   is at least as probable that a guilty suspect will, instead, provide false
>   information intended (a) to stop the torture for the time being and (b) to send
>   the torturers on a wild-goose chase long enough to allow the bomb to explode.
>   The calculus looks something like this:

Its not a matter of how long you're going to live but how long its
going to take for you to die.