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by clusterfoo 4203 days ago
Minor pet-peeve. But we should probably refrain from immediately jumping to "drug cartel" examples. It only further perpetuates the meme that privacy is only something criminals and perverts should be concerned with.

Why not "Erotic messages with my wife", "My medical records", "My business plan", "My home videos", or any other number of things most regular people probably don't want anyone snooping around.

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Fair enough. But you did understand that this tool is a way to decrypt something, under duress, which provides a credible plaintext rather than the actual plaintext right? And if someone asked you decrypt your "home videos" under duress and you used the alternate key to decrypt the "cat videos", the people forcing you to do the decryption might be suspicious that you're encrypting cat videos at all.