Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by andreareina 3432 days ago
FTA:

> If it isn’t baked-in to the operating system, the fact that the journalist was using some out-of-the-ordinary software itself, which may or may not have undeniable tells, would likely be a red flag and induce liberal use of the rubber hose.

This is in fact a thought that I've had about Truecrypt/Veracrypt: given a user, it seems the probability of them having a hidden volume is high. It might be deniable in the cryptographic sense, but it's very highly suggestive.

1 comments

Yes, that's why everyone should be using it.
Or simply it should be shipped by default with your operating system. That way, everyone has it, whether they need it or not, and you can claim you don't know what that is and it must be something that came with your Windows copy.
Yep, that's another good idea.