Editing TrueCrypt (section)

=== David Miranda ===
{{further|David Miranda (politician)#Global surveillance activism}}

On 18 August 2013 [[David Miranda (politician)|David Miranda]], partner of journalist [[Glenn Greenwald]], was detained at London's [[Heathrow Airport]] by [[Metropolitan Police]] while en route to [[Rio de Janeiro]] from [[Berlin]]. He was carrying with him an [[external hard drive]] said to be containing sensitive documents pertaining to the [[Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)|2013 global surveillance disclosures]] sparked by [[Edward Snowden]]. Contents of the drive were encrypted by TrueCrypt, which authorities said "renders the material extremely difficult to access".<ref name="mirandaReuters">{{Citation |last=Hosenball |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Hosenball |title=UK asked N.Y. Times to destroy Snowden material |publisher=Reuters |date=30 August 2013 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-snowden-nytimes-idUSBRE97T0RC20130830 |access-date=30 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706234052/http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/us-usa-security-snowden-nytimes-idUSBRE97T0RC20130830 |archive-date=6 July 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy }}</ref> Detective Superintendent Caroline Goode stated the hard drive contained around 60 gigabytes of data, "of which only 20 have been accessed to date." She further stated the process to decode the material was complex and "so far only 75 documents have been reconstructed since the property was initially received."<ref name="mirandaReuters" />

''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' contributor Naomi Colvin concluded the statements were misleading, stating that it was possible Goode was not even referring to any actual encrypted material, but rather deleted files [[Data recovery|reconstructed]] from unencrypted, unallocated space on the hard drive, or even [[plaintext]] documents from Miranda's [[Personal property|personal effects]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Colvin |first=Naomi |title=#Miranda: Where is the UK Government getting its numbers from? |work=Extraordinary Popular Delusions |publisher=Auerfeld.com |date=31 August 2013 |url=http://auerfeld.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/miranda-where-is-the-uk-government-getting-its-numbers-from/ |access-date=30 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531090315/http://auerfeld.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/miranda-where-is-the-uk-government-getting-its-numbers-from/ |archive-date=31 May 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}</ref> Greenwald supported this assessment in an interview with ''[[Democracy Now!]]'', mentioning that the [[United Kingdom|UK]] government filed an [[affidavit]] asking the court to allow them to retain possession of Miranda's belongings. The grounds for the request were that they could not break the encryption, and were only able to access 75 of the documents that he was carrying, which Greenwald said "most of which were probably ones related to his school work and personal use".<ref>{{cite AV media |last=Greenwald |first=Glenn| author-link =Glenn Greenwald | date =6 September 2013 | title =Greenwald: UK's Detention of My Partner Was Incredibly Menacing Bid to Stop NSA Reports | medium =News broadcast | url =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxAoY_t7MY#t=5m13s | access-date =30 May 2014 | format =Video | time =5:12 | location =New York | publisher =[[Democracy Now!]]}}</ref>