U.S. prosecutors pull encrypted messages from phones seized in Cohen raids

[getagrip_already]

9. cohen is as dumb as a brick, but it is a good idea to encrypt and shred lots of inane stuff along

with the ultra sensitive.

Look at it this way, if you break into a house and find a safe, you can be fairly sure there will be valuables in there. But if you find 500 safes, and it takes a long time to open each one, and the first 5 have socks and dishes in them, well, it's going to be a long, frustrating search. In the end, that might be all you find because the prizes were hidden elsewhere.

That's why you don't just encrypt and shred the important stuff. Do it to everything and let them reassemble 100 bags of randomly shredded stuff.

Give them 5 TB of randomly encrypted docs, not 100 MB.

You also have a defense strategy. "Why did you encrypt these documents?" - "I encrypt everything. I wasn't trying to hide those documents speciiifically, everything is equally important.".