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US District Ct. Says Defendant Must Provide Decrypted Data
An anonymous reader writes "If you're planning on traveling internationally with a laptop, consider the following: District Court Overturns Magistrate Judge in Fifth Amendment Encryption Case. Laptop searches at the border have been discussed many times previously. This is the case where a man entered the country allegedly carrying pornographic material in an encrypted file on his laptop. He initially cooperated with border agents during the search of the laptop then later decided not to cooperate citing the Fifth Amendment. Last year a magistrate judge ruled that compelling the man to enter his password would violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Now in a narrow ruling, US District Judge William K. Sessions III said the man had waived his right against self-incrimination when he initially cooperated with border agents."
sohp notes that "the order is not that he produce the key — just that he provide an unencrypted copy."
Seriously. You beat me to it.
Here's a hint: just because the powerful public people of a country do something bad doesn't mean that the entire population or even a significant portion of it share the same values or act the same way.
Though with such an attitude as exhibited by the GP, he's probably right to be terrified to come here.
Your brain is not a computer.
You're a fucking moron, aren't you?
I know people who work in computer forensics and contract to police departments. I guarantee, without even knowing who you are, that they have a far greater mastery of *nix than you do.
Fucking reprobate shitmonger.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."