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I´ve viewed the Berlin speech of Barrak Obama yesterday evening on CNN (the german networks had terrible translators). I really think, i saw the next president of the United States. From my perspective it was a good speech. Refreshingly different than the other politicans i saw before (the US ones and the german ones as well). I really hope, your get it right this time, dear US voters ... i really had some doubts about the mental status of the US people at the last election.

BTW: I don´t think that this age is a problem. Long and vast Experience is often not much more than an excuse for stubborn narrow-mindness. You have advisors for this task, knowing much more about an issue than you will know ... you just take care, that your advisors haven´t an own policy (but Bush (the younger one) got even relected with such advisors).

There is a good reason to develop Deniable Encryption. According to a blog entry of fefe US law enforcement agencies are allowed to copy your harddisk and to demand to get the passwords for encrypted files when you want to enter the US. Reportedly the border control is authorized to put you in coercive detention to gather the password.

So you need an encryption, that is not detectable or you need two notebooks. One you use to store your confidential data and one sanitized from all confidential data with only the files you need while you visit the US.

PS: Well, nice sideeffect, it would be very easy to put someone into long detention: Send him a long encrypted mail. But encrypt it with a secret key unknown to the person