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mcguire on Sept 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Pr...

As the note at the bottom of the article implies, "hashes" of files on an encrypted disk? WTF?

"Bleeping Computer users have pointed out that you cannot match file hashes to encrypted content. The article was updated with a link to court documents from where the prosecution's statement was cited."

cocoablazing on Sept 2, 2017 | [–]

The hashes were acquired as Freenet content hash keys. He was sharing CP on freenet, which the government scrapes for known CP signatures.

35bge57dtjku on Sept 2, 2017 | [–]

I'd like to know how that works.

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