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The point is to lock your laptop when the government is coming to bust you. This device would have kept Ross Ulbricht out of jail.


>This device would have kept Ross Ulbricht out of jail.

This device would had made a difference in the initial library-swipe confrontation, but would had definitely not kept Ross out of jail by any means (even that day)


Oh he certainly would have been arrested (jail), but he would have avoided prison (conviction).


He would of avoided jail (that day, the agent would have noticed the bump-kill-switch and averted recon)

He would had always of went to prison, even if they didn't get his HDD unencrypted. He used his personal email to promote his Mycology website, had the Obama administration to contend with, and was the first to sail westward.

Free Ross (The Department of Parks and Recreation)




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