Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >> Also, if the investigators fill with true random bits the sections that you
> >> have encrypted, before turning it over, can you sue them for lost data?
> > 
> >   But then, how do they know that they are overwriting encrypted data?
> > They have no way of proving that a certain file is actually encrypted
> > rather than containing some data used by some program.
> > 
> >   They might as well destroy all your files. Do they perform such a
> > vandalism?

>         I guess he meant writing stuff onto space allocated as free. That will
> destroy any hidden partitions.

  They would have to decrypt the main partition first.

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                                                          - Warp

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