Re:DOJ: We can force you to decrypt that laptop
by djackson on Monday July 11, 2011 @04:52PM
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They have the information. They have your hard drive. You have a key, or they can brute force the information out with decryption software. This is not a Fifth Amendment case. They don't want or care about the password itself. They can't use the information you provide (the password) to incriminate you, no matter what the password is.
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Re:DOJ: We can force you to decrypt that laptop
by VladRussian on Monday July 11, 2011 @05:29PM
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>You have a key, or they can brute force the information out with decryption software. This is not a Fifth Amendment case. They don't want or care about the password itself. They can't use the information you provide (the password) to incriminate you, no matter what the password is.
You have the coordinates of the dead body, or they can dig and scan each square foot of the continent. This is not a Fifth Amendment case. They don't want or care about the coordinates itself. They can't use the information you provide (the coordinates of the dead body) to incriminate you, no matter what the coordinates of the dead body is.