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Re:Colorado woman must unencrypt hard drive by Sukotto on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @07:43PM (#3623271)
How is this different than being forced to unlock something like a filing cabinet or empty your pockets, or open the storage locker as part of a police investigation?

this is investigating a specific crime. It's not like being forced to decrypt when the police are fishing for a reason to bust you. (or NYC's stop-and-frisk emptying of your pockets which I firmly oppose)

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Re:Colorado woman must unencrypt hard drive by Arelius on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @07:48PM (#3623288)
Should we all be storing our hard drives in a lockable vault, such that we can get the legal protection that physically sealing it would do?
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Re:Colorado woman must unencrypt hard drive by Sukotto on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @08:28PM (#3623384)
No. My point is that search warrants should cover decrypting your digital data in exactly the same way that they allow the police to search your home, your office, your storage locker, your safe, etc.
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Re:Colorado woman must unencrypt hard drive by maxerickson on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @08:39PM (#3623412)
Why not treat cryptography as a novelty?

A nice outcome is that it avoids all the issues surrounding guessing whether the key to the random bits even exists, and what form it takes, and whether there is more than one key, and so on.

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