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Probably both honestly. On one hand this is a fascist hell and even hopping to another EU country wouldn't help much since they all collaborate with the feds, even the based ones.

On the other hand, people in that one Palestine solidarity group "Palestonia" and the country's only leftist party "Vasakliit", which many in said group are members of, have had to deal with feds prior and are aiding me in seeking an attorney. Ideally one who is fluent in both Estonian and English.

Bitlocker

just an FYI, bitlocker is backdoored and we just recently found out. law enforcement should be assumed to be able to unlock anything if they cooperate with microsoft.

google and apple are likely doing the same.

proprietary software and services should never be trusted with sensitive info, especially if the feds are after you.

Bitlocker is backdoored. There's a public exploit for decrypting it available right now. Use veracrypt if you're going to do full disk encryption on windows.

Also beware of doing this as their country -MAY- have key disclosure laws which in short could mean the police could be allowed to hold them indefinitely in prison until they hand over the passwords or until decades of time have passed and they get a really good lawyer to convince the judge they've genuinely forgotten the passwords. Some countries may also have laws where they just straight up sentence you to five years prison with no getting out even if you then reveal the keys for a contempt of court reason.

So in other words while encryption and passwords may protect your data they won't necessarily protect you.

If you have data you're willing to rot in prison for years to decades to prevent them getting (e.g. you're a secretary of an underground communist party and are protecting your members) then yeah it can really help and stifle them. However if you're just an average person the time you spend in prison for resisting could end up greater than the time you would get for whatever the crime on your computer is.

So know the law in your jurisdiction.

Know if you may be compelled to decrypt and if so plan ahead of how far you're willing to resist before you find yourself in a tight spot and manage your risk and data accordingly. Veracrypt has hidden volumes so you could have a decoy set up but you'd need to put some decent amount of personal info and proof of use to convince forensic examiners that you haven't given them a decoy. You could use it, claim you use private browsing mostly (hence no browser history or very little), claim only if pressed that you deleted a lot of your stuff in response to pressure you were feeling (but not to hinder an investigation, just because you thought it looked bad). Though the problem with that for an OS is Windows writes all kinds of log entries with regular use, it would be clear unless you boot into it regularly that it's not being used often. You could have a USB drive with a bootable image of for example Tails OS and claim you regularly use that instead which leaves no trace and would explain your lack of recorded usage. The gotcha with this is you need to actually boot Tails and gain a basic understanding of its use as otherwise if you're totally ignorant of it, they ask you to use it in court to prove it, you can't do it, they hit you with perjury and then you're done.

But the best tactic is simply not to have anything incriminating on your devices in this situation. Delete it. Anything truly important you cannot part with place in an encrypted veracrypt volume and send the only copy securely to a friend (don't use email, authorities will get a copy of it). That friend should be out of European jurisdiction entirely so they cannot be pressured. If you don't have the files key disclosure laws don't apply or matter, if you have the files but not the key you can be in trouble. So better to not have the files but the key than have the files but not have the key.

I'd also recommend fully shutting your phone down. "Before first unlock" makes """"investigations"""" harder to do.

Cryptography is a wonderful thing!

There was communist sentiments all over Europe in the 20th century. Estonia was quite literally in the Russia sphere of influence.

Incredibly cursed

We also need the "baltiKKKs-cool" flag emojis