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US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive
A Commentor writes "Perhaps to balance the good news with the Supreme Court ruling on GPS, a judge in Colorado has ordered a defendant to decrypt her hard drive. The government doesn't have the capability to break the PGP encryption, and 'the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents' of the defendant's computer."
If you don't, you'll have to see a man with a $5 wrench...
That's how I see it. The idea of files within files so you can reveal /something/ when you unlock the file also looks to be good. "ok, now the other passwrd" "what other one? that's it, that's all there is, 100gb file to hide my bankPassword.txt file"
Waiting for an amusing sig.
That's why my password is "I~Did-It". Then it actually would be self-incrimination to reveal the password.
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
Is the 21 the one that talks about wealthy not expected to be convicted and the government should bail them out? Excuse my ignorance, I'm not from the US.
Your password is too weak. Use passphrases, they're easier to remember and harder to hack.
Here's a few for example:
"My Hard Drive is full 0f stolen card data"
"I fed the body to neighbour's pigs"
"Me, with the candlestick, in the library"
Yes, it's a good thing you live in England!
Which is why I've always kept my password as "ImurderedMrandMrsBlevinsonJune171982inJacksonCounty!" Satisfies those pesky security requirements as well.
encrypt it with drm then if they try to force you to decrypt it they would be forcing you to brake the dmca. thus decrypting it would itself be a fellony for you or them to decrypt it (stopping attempts by them to brute force or exploit a flaw in the drm scheme). i am fairly sure that you can not be ordered to break the law even by the court. thus you are safe
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"Me, with the candlestick, in the library"
I don't think that's illegal yet.
Oh. You meant hitting someone with the candlestick.
Which is why I've always kept my password as "ImurderedMrandMrsBlevinsonJune171982inJacksonCounty!" Satisfies those pesky security requirements as well.
YOU'RE the one who killed Uncle Ahmed and Aunt Lorraine? :`(
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