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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."
"Once the FBI had some success of their own and found evidence, then the judge changed his mind."
Doesn't fucking matter. We have an inalienable right to not expose ourselves to criminal prosecution, period.
And with this now in my mind, fuck your economy.
It goes to China. China is about to enslave you with my technology, fuck the FBI and Secret Service.
They just lost all right to anything at all. I hope they're prepared to feed their children from the boots of Chinese military.
I'm one hour away from full decryption and sellout of the entire USA economy, and you can't stop me.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
"Now, nothing there prohibits the FBI from trying to decrypt the drives since they were taken with a warrant and had reasonable suspicion that they were used in a crime. Once they were able to decrypt those drives and see that in fact they did contain illegal content and were owned by the accused, the judge can then compel the accused to decrypt the other drives since it is now know that they are owned by him and contain illegal content."
You totally fail at constitutional rights.
You can't compel me PERIOD, even with a warrant. I can simply say No and if you fuck with me, I send your economy into a downward spiral.
Which I'm doing right now as an action against this unlawful bullshit.
And it's unlawful due to how the FBI took it.
Hope the FBI is ready to DIE when I trigger another civil war.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
"After proving that drives at least contained some child porn it was no longer possible."
Prove to me this person ilegaly downloaded it and was not given it in an attempt to frame him.
Oh, you can't. So fuck you and your future generations, I'm selling your future, and fuck you and your children, asshole.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
"Pedophiles are animals, and don't deserve rights."
I'm sorry you failed basic biology - humans are animals as well.
Go back to high school and maybe learn the truth - your government is trying to fuck you.
Nope, I'm going to fuck you and your future generations first. Government can't stop me, PERIOD.
Thank ITAR laws for that one.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
"Supposedly they have kiddie pron on the part that's been decrypted"
You mean there's supposedly CP on that which they can access and modify to their heart's content.
Fuck you, FBI. You're about to DIE. I've got your agents, and I've got the ability to outright knock your director of services into child pornography land.
PROTIP: You think you know how to hack - you do not, and I'm about to own your as by making every FBI agent a possessor of CP.
Watch what happens when the FBI gets a full charge of aiding and abetting child porn.
Get ready - the dropbox full of information is about to drop - all 400+ gigs of it.
The FBI is the number one defacto distributor and producer of child pornography.
And I'm about to prove it, in public.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
And that's why your children are about to be bitches to my economic ability.
Get ready, fool.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Good job exposing yourself.
It took you this long to be stupid, I'll give you props for that you pedophile.
Now have fun dodging the charges I can throw at you (not mentioning names, that'll hit the courts soon enough.)
Oh, you thought /. would save you?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
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.