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TrueCrypt and Firefox @Andrew Barratt  

In How just thinking about terrorism became illegal

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Yes, you can run Firefox from a TrueCrypt volume. I do this on a USB drive as the TrueCrypt volume loads into memory so Firefox runs quickly and without any r/w to the disk. I'm not quite at the stage of paranoia where I'd run it through Tor from a hidden volume within TrueCrypt but soon ...

suspiciousMinds

Plausible Deniability  

In UK police can now force you to reveal decryption keys

Surely this clause is simply defeated by having your valuables in an encrypted volume inside another encrypted volume. Hand over the first key, there's some guff (and a bit of pr0n for plod's reality check), and there's no way anyone can prove there's anything else to unlock.

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