Re:Congress Starts to Get Serious About Online Privacy
by nly on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:29PM
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In the UK we "dealt" with this by making refusal to turn over crypto keys and passwords an imprisonable offence in its own right.
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Re:Congress Starts to Get Serious About Online Privacy
by Spivak on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @03:10PM
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Do you not consider this to be compelling a defendant to testify against themselves? (At least assuming the password only exists in their memory and not written down somewhere.) And more importantly, how do you deal with the case where a person legitimately lost or corrupted their key/password or has an automated system to destroy the key if some unrelated event occurs like power failure, an incorrect password attempt, a Bluetooth disconnect, or a wipe if the device is in an unfamiliar location. Is having a system like that a criminal offense itself?