Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules

Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by bdcravens on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:27PM (#38659048)

Search warrants can compel you to give police access to your property, which can include your body (in cases of blood draw warrants in the case of DWI). The police can obtain a search warrant for your physical filing cabinet, which includes taking measures to access it if you won't unlock it for them.

Police can easily get warrants for your phone; you just can't be compelled to give the code to unlock. I suspect in the future we'll see a different level of cooperation from phone makers.

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Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by ejb999 on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:56PM (#38659303)

yep, surprised it doesn't exist already - one password to get you in, one password to wipe or hide everything you want and then let the police in to a completely sanitized version of what you want them to see.

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Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by spockz on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:26PM (#38659590)

TrueCrypt and other tools had this around for ages. Something with nested partitions. One key unlocked the main partition that you are supposed to fill with something credible. And then another key that looks a partition even deeper that should contain your true secrets.

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Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:15PM (#38659493)

Because it's a fantastic idea to commit additional felonies to feel like a hackerman. Following the law is for suckers.

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Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by dang on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:41PM (#38659743)

You can't post like this here, and we ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

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Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by zlg_codes on Saturday December 16, 2023 @07:42PM (#38669274)

Fair enough, I recognize when I'm not welcome.

I attempted to delete my posts and my account for you but there does not appear to be such facilities.

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Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by dang on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:34PM (#38670110)

You're certainly welcome! it's just that kind of post that's not welcome.

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Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:19PM (#38659532)

I am curious in what situation you think murdering a cop would result in a less bad outcome.

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Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by dang on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:41PM (#38659744)

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

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Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,... by pseudospock on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:28PM (#38659608)

Won't be better for him, but it helps everyone else out. ACAB.

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