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0 pointspalmotea1mo ago0 comments

> Does anyone know if there exists any OPSEC procedure for me to use third party tools like this for my own concerning legal questions that is both ethical and allows me to be confident that my interactions won't land in discovery documents?

Isn't that a fundamental misunderstanding? Would "OPSEC" like that amount to destruction of evidence or contempt of court or something like that?

Like if all your incriminating documents are on some encrypted drive, it's not like that defeats discovery. You're supposed to decrypt them and hand them over.

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nerdsniper1mo ago· 1 in thread

That’s absolutely part of my question. I’m not familiar enough with discovery to fully understand this.

bombcar1mo ago

Discovery in a criminal trial is more limited than in a civil trial.

Your only real defense against discovery is to not have said it, or to have destroyed all records of it before the hint of discovery wafted on the wind.

trollbridge1mo ago

Your only practical defence is to set up a local LLM that destroys records in a predictable way (immediately, on a time table and so forth) and then ensure however you access that doesn’t leave any traces either.

And then you need to consistently use this for purposes other than crime.

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