Nope, I'll demonstrate:

Parallel to this law: Cop doesn't plant anything, points at the empty boot of your car, says "that's an invisible, odourless, dimension-shifted bag of contraband we can't touch, see or otherwise detect, but I think it's there and you've just hidden it beyond the ability of our tools to reach! Get 'im, boys!"

And now after this law:

Case 1: Cop doesn't have to plant anything, just points at random block of free space "That's an encrypted hidden partition, get 'im boys!"

Case 2: Cop doesn't have to plant anything, points at that test container file from an encryption program you ran a trial of a year ago and forgot about, it might contain a text document with your CC# or something and that's all, but Mr. Poh-leece-man can up and assert "Omg, encrypted kiddie porn! And encrypted nuke schematics! And encrypted blueprints for the White House with drawings that say 'execute tha prezadent here'! Get 'im, boys!"

I thought it was Carmen Sandiego's hat, because using that tricky hackery Linux stuff makes you a sneaky bugger!

Because you can demonstrate that the bag of bicarb in your boot is not meth, but you can't demonstrate that the random block of free space on your computer is not an encrypted video tutorial on how to build a nuke, delivered by a masturbating 14yo al-Qaeda operative.

Nothing has to be planted. Assertion that a crime has taken place is all that is required. In an extreme case, accusation=conviction (if the law is applied to the letter)... not good.

Or your free space blocks that could be mistaken for encrypted terrorist blueprints. Oh no, you still go to jail!

Except in this situation he doesn't have to actually plant anything, he can just imagine it's there. The officer doesn't have to commit a crime (case tampering or whatever you'd call planting evidence) to throw you in the slammer *without* evidence.

Well no, you could have your truecrypt install on a usb key, on a chain around the neck of that pink unicorn in your secret basement they also never found. (But it MIGHT be there!!)

I found this system to work well. For any non-critical passwords (mainly websites/forums), I have a specific string I base my passes on (let's say it's "passwordssuck"), and each site has a slightly different permutation on this. If I'm making a password for 'website.com', it might be passwssuck or, if caps/nums/symbols are needed, something like p4ssW$suck... I would try to make any required permutations apply first to the website-specific additions, then to the leftmost possible other characters (no number equivalent for W or P so use the A). To make it less obvious to an unscrupulous forum/site operator that you are using such a system, it can be better to use something that doesn't look like words, such as the first letters of words in a memorable passphrase (e.g, "strong passwords protect your account from being compromised" = sppyafbc = (in the website.com example) 5ppyaW$fbc .... Looks completely random but it's memorable if you use this same system everywhere, and there aren't many things to try if you forget the exact symbol substitution etc for a given site. So slashdot pass could become 5ppya$Dfbc, midgetpron.com you use $ppy4Mpfbc, and so on - so long as you follow the same ruleset each time you'll never forget them. I haven't seen any forum sites that enforce password expiry, obviously that'd screw you over. I'll post again about those changing passes, but need to post this now before my flaky mobile safari crashes again. :p