Wednesday, 28. August 2013
Topic: SECURITY - on August 28, 2013 at 3:54:00 PM CEST
The Deeper Meaning Of Miranda's Detention And The Destruction Of The Guardian's Hard Drives
As many have already observed, the detention of David Miranda comes across as an act of blatant intimidation, as does the farcical destruction of the Guardian's hard drives. But something doesn't ring true about these episodes: spooks may be cynical and ruthless, but they are not generally clueless idiots.
They would have guessed that Miranda would not possess the keys for any encrypted files that he was carrying, so seizing his equipment simply left them with a bunch of ones and zeroes that they were unable to read (unless strong encryption has been broken and we don't yet know about it).
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