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Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives
An anonymous reader writes "After having first decided against forcing a suspect to decrypt a number of hard drives that were believed to be his and to contain child pornography, a U.S. judge has changed his mind and has now ordered the suspect to provide law enforcement agents heading the investigation with a decrypted version of the contents of his encrypted data storage system, or the passwords needed to decrypt forensic copies of those storage devices. Jeffrey Feldman, a software developer at Rockwell Automation, has still not been charged with any crime, and the prosecution initially couldn't prove conclusively that the encrypted hard drives contained child pornography or were actually Feldman's, which led U.S. Magistrate Judge William Callahan to decide that forcing him to decrypt them would violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. But new evidence has made the judge reverse his first decision (PDF): the FBI has continued to try to crack the encryption on the discs, and has recently managed to decrypt and access one of the suspect's hard drives... The storage device was found to contain 'an intricate electronic folder structure comprised of approximately 6,712 folders and subfolders,' approximately 707,307 files (among them numerous files which constitute child pornography), detailed personal financial records and documents belonging to the suspect, as well as dozens of his personal photographs."
We know one thing for sure, and that is that the government has admitted to the crime of having over 700,000 images of child pornography and having viewed same.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Sound like they got the Users/Jeff folder on the "unencrypted Dell computer, which showed connections to the encrypted storage devices"... Probably just cracked his Windoze pass, or mounted his HD in another OS. Now they want access to the GIGS!
Unequivocally the realest of the realz...
Normal people can accept the consent of their objects of attraction.
Then I suppose we should toss people who can't get girlfriends in prison.
A pedophile can only rape.
You're an imbecile. A pedophile is not necessarily a child molester.