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Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password
wiedzmin writes "A Colorado woman that was ordered by a federal judge to decrypt her laptop hard-drive for police last month, appears to have forgotten her password. If she does not remember the password by month's end, as ordered, she could be held in contempt and jailed until she complies. It appears that bad memory is now a federal offense."
The article clarifies that her lawyer stated she may have forgotten the password; they haven't offered that as a defense in court yet.
xkcd.com/538/
Like this, only with less pain and more jailtime...
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
...you should put all the juicy stuff in plain sight on your harddisk. Then encrypt the stuff you don't care about. When the authorities finally get the password out of you, at least you'll have the satisfaction of confounding them.
I was about to mod your post, but then I realized there's no "Obligatory" option.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
And for presidents... "I did not [remember] having sexual relations with that worman."
Because I do not plain to use them
They are "honey-pots" I left for the law-enforcement agents, just in case they are interested in what I have in my HD
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Well I'm glad that you released your brilliant plan on a public forum where said law enforcement agents surely wouldn't look.
Well I'm glad that you released your brilliant plan on a public forum where said law enforcement agents surely wouldn't look.
Maybe he wants law enforcement to think those are just "honey-pots" so they don't try too hard to get at the content.
No, you're thinking of religious texts.
Saying that, may well find "US Constitution" moved to the Fiction section of your libraries pretty soon.
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
If I get caught, I'll tell them to decrypt it with rot13!
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Perhaps her password was "ICantRemember".
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
Shall we post the XKCD comic about the five dollar wrench? Would that be cruel?
No sig today...
Sorry, but this is no different to a judge ordering you to open a safe that is inaccessible due to a combination lock so you tell the judge, "Sorry, I honestly cannot remember the combination. However, the numbers for the combination were written in the manual which came with the lock. The three numbers range anywhere from 0-40. Good luck!"
Hence this bug should be fixed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/148440
All they have to say is "We believe this file is encrypted using stenography, give us the password"
Yeah, it's those stenographers and their suspicious-looking keyboards. They're bound to be up to no good. It seems like they've infiltrated every court in the land, too.
Burns: We're building a casino!
McAllister: Arrr. Give me 5 minutes.
Did they try hunter2?