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A comment on Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt.

Re:Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely f... by VectorLock on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:15PM (#22314762)
What about if your password itself is an admission of committing a crime? Like your pass phrase is "IMurderedJeffreyEpstein"
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Re:Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely f... by arthurofcharn on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:12AM (#22315469)
"I can't, your honor, the password itself is a confession." Is now my newest password.
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Re:Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely f... by slipheen on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:26PM (#22321577)
In the past, they've offered to exclude the contents of the password from the trial to answer that.
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