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Re:Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops by burgerbrain on Monday January 23, 2012 @11:30PM (#3503472)
It is never okay for my privacy to be compromised. I don't care if they have a piece of paper that says that I'm not supposed to care.

This has nothing to do with things that may or may not be "illegal".

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Re:Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops by tedunangst on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @12:48AM (#3503649)
How do you propose police execute a search warrant in someone's house? Or should the police never be allowed in your house under any circumstance?
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Re:Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops by burgerbrain on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:06AM (#3503677)
"Or should the police never be allowed in your house under any circumstance?"

The only circumstance is with my consent.

Unfortunately I cannot prevent physical intrusions. When it comes to security of data however thankfully things have been improving.

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Re:Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops by jiggy2011 on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @05:58AM (#3504229)
Sometimes the police might need to enter someones property or get access to data to stop crime.

Whilst I think that of course people should stand up for civil liberties etc we have to bear in mind if we completely neutered the police your civil liberties aren't worth shit as a criminal can just take them from you as nobody has enough power to gather evidence against them.

You then risk people turning to mob justice with no due process whatsoever.

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Re:Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops by burgerbrain on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @09:54AM (#3504952)
In a world where I have an absolute defence against the invasion of police officers, I also have protection against criminals. The "real world" version of cryptography does not of course exist, but nevertheless I subscribe to the belief that all transactions should be voluntary.

Police can serve warrants to search my home. There is nothing I can do to stop them, and I won't attempt to stop them (since I value my life). However that does not mean I consent or approve. "They have a warrant", provides me with zero comfort.

tl;dr: Police are going to keep being police without my approval, so I don't see why my system of ethics needs to give them room to operate.

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Re:Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops by andylei on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @09:55AM (#3504954)
this an absolutely ridiculous position. if you are charged with a crime, police absolutely do and should investigate for evidence, which includes breaching your privacy. the entire of idea of finding evidence is to breach your privacy.

without this, almost no crimes would have enough evidence to go to prosecution. that includes stuff that you don't care about, like privacy, and maybe stuff you do care about, like murders and kidnapping

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