Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years

Re:Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison Af... by wyager on Saturday September 02, 2017 @11:03AM (#15156304)

Ding ding ding. This is the answer. I know OS X also stores hashes of at least some downloads for the purpose of checking certificates on downloaded apps and disk images.

This is clearly enough evidence to convict the guy, so I imagine they're holding him for some political reason (like generating jurisprudence for violating the 5th amendment in the future).

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Re:Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison Af... by geofft on Saturday September 02, 2017 @08:36PM (#15159043)

I vaguely suspect they're holding him because they expect to get either a stronger conviction or more evidence for other cases from the contents of the external drive (e.g., maybe he's producing child porn or knows people who do).

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