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> It'd also be trivial to devise a decryption algorithm, and key, which "decrypts" anyones hard drive to reveal illegal images even when none are really there...

How trivial? Remember that the whole hard drive must be consistent, including a file system. Fifty gigabytes of garbage followed by a 2-megabyte photograph followed by fifty more gigabytes of noise is not plausible.



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