Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,...
by bee_rider on Friday December 15, 2023 @06:04PM
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I suspect you’d actually be ordered to provide access to this device (which you regularly access).
In particular, I don’t remember the pin or password to some devices and accounts. They are shapes, on the pin-pad or keyboard. There are enough alternative ways of logging in (the apple face thingy, yubikey, you could hypothetically have devices setting up arbitrarily complex interlocking login processes) that I suspect the court would just define what they want, rather than how they want you to do it.
I could be wrong though, no actual experience here with the legal system at all.
In particular, I don’t remember the pin or password to some devices and accounts. They are shapes, on the pin-pad or keyboard. There are enough alternative ways of logging in (the apple face thingy, yubikey, you could hypothetically have devices setting up arbitrarily complex interlocking login processes) that I suspect the court would just define what they want, rather than how they want you to do it.
I could be wrong though, no actual experience here with the legal system at all.