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Re:Feds seized $2.9M from Mt. Gox, court docs show by qq66 on Monday August 19, 2013 @10:10PM (#6241265)
"Break it or go to jail" is already established law that pre-dates computers ("open this combination safe or go to jail"), but courts have generally held that this law also applies to encryption keys.
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Re:Feds seized $2.9M from Mt. Gox, court docs show by derekp7 on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @02:12PM (#6245474)
And if the contents of the safe are written in code, or some made up language that the courts don't understand, can they compel you to translate them?
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Re:Feds seized $2.9M from Mt. Gox, court docs show by qq66 on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @02:43PM (#6245713)
Yes, they can. This has also been true for hundreds of years.
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