@theymos,
are you obliged to give them these 'data' or not?
You are right, I can't imagine someone read a pgp encrypted message and he doesn't know what the hell is write in that message (because he doesn't have the key for decrypt it
).
are you obliged to give them these 'data' or not?
Awesome. 
Use PGP if you want privacy.
Use PGP if you want privacy.
You are right, I can't imagine someone read a pgp encrypted message and he doesn't know what the hell is write in that message (because he doesn't have the key for decrypt it
).Subpoena is a court order, so yes he has to respond (either consent or fight it in court) or he can be jailed.
And yes you should always use PGP or something else for sensitive communications.
I hope they enjoy reading my pm's to Inaba warning him to stop trolling and derailing threads, and him whining about someone else starting it.
When the investigators read the BFL threads they'll probably think everyone here is nuts. They might want to lock up everyone involved as a public safety measure. lol
Most probable yes
.Kind of scary how they asked for all PM's mentioning BFL. I recall a while ago theymos discussed the idea of adding javascript PM encryption as a way to protect the forum from unreasonable searches and seizures. It isn't the best way to do it, as of course theymos could modify the javascript at anytime (he could even potentially be compelled to do so by law), but modifying the javascript is detectable, and messages that were sent and viewed with the unmodified javascript are still safe. It adds an extra layer of security, which should be sufficient for most PM's. It would also be very useful should BitcoinTalk's database ever get compromised... again. Anyone who has something really secret to tell should use something like PGP instead of this however.
I think we should consider adding this to the new forum software.
I think we should consider adding this to the new forum software.
The other big problem with that is how to handle private keys. If the private key is generated from your password, for example, then forgetting your password would mean losing all of your PMs. Most people aren't prepared for this.
This is pretty much the whole forum, right?
It was 2.3% of topics. (This still amounted to ~5 GB of text.)
~5 gb of data, only for BFL
. Can you upload the subpoeana here in the forum (as the other one, the silkroad subpoena?) thanks.