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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

You Using Your Own Password To Unlock Evidence Is Not Self-Incriminating?

How? I'm with the ACLU on this one, and I hope it is overturned on appeal:

Sleazy guy w/ bad kinds of stuff on his computer is forced on appeal to use his PGP key to unlock his laptop to give prosecutors access to his hard drive.

They could use a software tool on loan from the FBI or DEA or somebody to crack it, I'm sure. Instead they want the defendant to enter his pass key into his computer, so the prosecution can have at the evidence they want. How is this not self-incriminating? If this is not overturned, we're all screwed.

. . . of course, the innocent have nothing to fear, right Citizen Obama?

H/T: Uncle

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