Comment Re:Two hours? (Score 3, Insightful) 223
Even if they aren't lying, the question is "did they use AES 256 correctly?"
There are a number of ways, some of them non-obvious, to produce a system that does, in fact, use AES 256 in some capacity; but doesn't actually achieve reasonably security against anybody who wouldn't also be stopped by XOR and a scary looking autorun program(particularly since, as this is a small USB drive, the attacker can probably make some plausible assumptions about some of the plaintext, based on what is known about what fat32 volumes look like).
There are a number of ways, some of them non-obvious, to produce a system that does, in fact, use AES 256 in some capacity; but doesn't actually achieve reasonably security against anybody who wouldn't also be stopped by XOR and a scary looking autorun program(particularly since, as this is a small USB drive, the attacker can probably make some plausible assumptions about some of the plaintext, based on what is known about what fat32 volumes look like).
Comment Re:Two hours? (Score 1, Insightful) 223
it's because they want to be able to sell data recovery services.
That and it's a genuine concern in business- apparently when they ask "what if I forget my password" the answer "then you try to remember it or your data is gone" isn't acceptable.
Comment Re:Well (Score 1) 374
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Comment goodluckwiththat (Score 1) 77
From TFA:"Others indicted are from the US, Estonia, China, and Belarus".
Yeah, good luck with that. I'm sure those countries will have no problem handing people over.
