ENCRYPT YOUR SHIT NOW: DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border (Affects all people within 100miles of border)

Uhmm, this has been around since Bush was in office.. You act like this all started yesterday..

I notice that you are trying to say this happened under Obama, hence mentioning it started in 2009.. Well, go fuck yourself, it was Bush, and here is the exact same source you used to try and bullshit everyone with, except it came out in October of 2008:
[link to www.wired.com]

"After 9/11, Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security the right to use some of its powers deeper within the country, and now DHS has set up at least 33 internal checkpoints where they stop people, question them and ask them to prove citizenship, according to the ACLU."

encrypt all you want if they want they can get in, im even sure they can get some data from your RAM.. Scary stuff tho, thanks for heads up

encrypt my shit?!??! why...i have nothing to hide. fuck obama and all his BS administration....and secret service visits at 3am in the morning. nothing to hide! no fear but God.

It would take them 2 quadrillion years to crack my encryption password.

It would be little more than an overly complex paper weight to them.

At best they might be able to retrieve some data leakage from ram but they had better be Johnny on the spot with that one...

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What every patriot needs, secure communications: RetroShare

RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform.
It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication.
RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, forums and channels.

See: [link to retroshare.sourceforge.net]

I'm forever seeing sneery posts from Americans about how the UK is a surveilance state whereas US is 'land of the free'. Guess we are not so different huh?

I guess ocean borders, too, now. This is too far. Homeland-Heimatland

I have a better option

full your HD will Terabytes of pure wasting time data

someone should put up a 2 tb torrent full of cats, anal warts, family reuninons photos

start to organize database of pointless shit

obviuosly name all the files like...terroristic_plan_to_conquer_the_US.jpg

Not just ordinary time wasting shit -- you need to add "layers" of useless shit. IE, A data base of cat pictures double exposed with maps, plans, etc. Zoom into an ear to read Larry Sinclair's tell-all about his obama trist.

No one is saying that this is all Obama's fault. Earlier in the thread I linked to an ACLU page that was created during the Bush years. What is new is that the electronics provision has been approved by the DHS and eliminates the requirement of suspicion --- suspicion is no longer required.

The left does seem to be allowing a double standard. At least people took to the streets and protested during the Bush years. Those individuals have been silent during Obama's time in office. Why is that? Perhaps you can provide a reasonable response.

Good point OP. Where is the protest? IMHO this is why tptb needed Obama to win cause Obama has everyone so sweethearted that he can get away with things like this and drone strikes and people just sit back and say oh hes doing the best that he can....

Tptb are very coordinated in their efforts to fulfill their adenda methinks.

After encrypting your data what can they do if you don't give out the password or key?

Pretty sure this is all a bunch of bullshit when it comes down to it. Why tell everybody oh this is hard we can't do it just to deceive the sheeple that think they can bunk the system.

Given the money, manpower and time that our tyrannical government has, anything is possible.

At least in North Korea you can possess, consume, and grow cannabis and opium.

Does anyone know of any programs that block access to your phone by pigs?

Linux, my friend. Complete open source with encryption as a built in option.. hard to hide a back door when you can see the "strings".

Encryption can be broken with bruteforce or this algorithm[1]...but that takes time(even with super computers). imagine if everyone encrypted their data, It would take DHS years to go through their stolen goods.

but encrypting doesn't fix the problem.... we have some cleaning to do here in America. lets just hope we can do it peaceful through the system before they start dropping hellfires on our heads(might already be too late).


1: [link to www.computerworld.com]

What most of you smart asses fail to realize is that if your data is encrypted right there is the first red flag that you are hiding something and they will ask you politely for a password. If you refuse to give out the password you raise another red flag and more than likely your device will be confiscated.

Use common sense and don't be stupid.

The strongest encryption is only as strong as the weakest bone in YOUR body. Just hope you are not found with your encrypted drive... we're not talkin' about the 'Boy Scouts' here.
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Last Edited by uscrusader1 on 02/10/2013 02:21 PM

OpenSource doesn't make it a trusted source, there maybe a majority of honest companies out there but it only takes a handful to do serious damage. Some of the most famous freeware scripts like phpBB for example a php based forum/bulletin board script comes loaded with back-doors hackers have exploited for years. When I worked in webdesign and internet language programming most of my income came from customers looking to remove back-doors and intentional security risks in the code of MANY freeware scripts of various programming languages. IMO it's not worth the risk, but some may not see it as such a risk.


If it can be encrypted, you can bet it can be decrypted when you're dealing with a budget as big as DHS, it's only a matter of time. Even if this were a surefire protection method, it's not feasible for most people or important data that must be protected but accessible at the same time. You also have the newer methods of pulling information from hard-drives magnetically, the data is basically pulled out without even activating or using a software based security systems. These systems are supposedly already operational and can be drove through neighborhoods(in cars/vans) sucking data from all hard-drives, flash-drives and possibly even CDs - we already know they're scanning and pulling all the data from network accessible devices. We're just starting to see the beginning of this kind of spying and technology with the cell phone scanners that can basically pull all data from a phone even if it has been deleted(as long as it was not copied over) and things like the handheld instant background scanners that run on fingerprints. The thing is the feds have a big head-start over all security software and other computer data security measures and a MUCh bigger budget, they had the internet long before we even knew what a computer was and were waging cyber-warfare much longer than all the security measures out there.

On the other hand, the agency could be saying this to get people to put their trust in a system the agency has already hacked.

Turn your laptop off and consider gluing the memory and seal the case with JB weld or something similar.

That's how you defeat a cold boot attack.

As far as encryption, it is a secondary concern at best, and the primary point of view should be that all electronic media that one uses and participates in is accessible, (and so much more), and that no one really has absolute constitutional rights anywhere,

...and act accordingly. Welcome to the jungle!

TrueCrypt is opensource with no backdoors. The weak point with all encryption systems is the password. A weak password can be broken with a brute force attack. With a strong password, 128 bit encryption is unbreakable without thousands of years of computer time.

[link to news.techworld.com]

Last Edited by Gimme Some Truth on 02/10/2013 03:33 PM

A few years ago, I read a similar article, but it included all land within 100 miles of a navigable waterway. That would reach far inland and would leave very little land unaffected by thugs who would do anything for a paycheck and the illusion on being on the "good" side.

A national strike appears to be the only non-violent option left.

If the border is a "Constitution free" zone, how can there be any legal law enforcement? Doesn't it make the border a free-for-all legally?

If you believe that I suggest not reading into TrueCrypts history with the CIA.

Since it is open source, the source code can be analyzed for back doors. None were found.