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Re:Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? by nitrogen on Saturday March 12, 2016 @02:01AM (#11271675)
The use of a warrant and the use of encryption should be completely orthogonal. It has nothing to do with "privilege" of electronic information. It's simply about the format in which information is stored.
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Re:Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? by Godel_unicode on Saturday March 12, 2016 @02:58AM (#11271784)
Except that using encryption can directly affect the ability to execute the warrant, similarly to how you would use a shredder on physical documents.

The files are in a state which is extremely difficult to work with, for the express purpose of preventing their access even with a warrant. Is that obstruction of justice? It would be with a shredder or a safe wired to burn papers if forced open.

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