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title: "Disk encryption sometimes ‘works’"
url: https://infosecurity.ch/20091109/disk-encryption-sometimes-works/
date: 2009-11-09
author: Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
language: en
tags: [cybercrime, encryption, privacy]
---

# Disk encryption sometimes ‘works’

I am one of the person convinced that a computer disk encryption system will not protect you from public authorities if they are convinced enough and the case is very important.

There are a lot of way to convince a person to release a password.

However there’s a case in Australia where not revealing the disk password resulted in a successful way to avoid going in jail:

[Secret code saves man who spied on flatmates](http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26232570-952,00.html)

My opinion is just that spying flatmates is not a so relevant and particular crime and that law enforcement did not used ‘convincing systems’ to get the password of encrypted disk.

UPDATE 29.06.2010: It also worked for [Daniel Dantas against FBI](http://g1.globo.com/English/noticia/2010/06/not-even-fbi-can-de-crypt-files-daniel-dantas.html) .