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Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A Philadelphia man suspected of possessing child pornography has been in jail for seven months and counting after being found in contempt of a court order demanding that he decrypt two password-protected hard drives. The suspect, a former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, has not been charged with any child porn crimes. Instead, he remains indefinitely imprisoned in Philadelphia's Federal Detention Center for refusing to unlock two drives encrypted with Apple's FileVault software in a case that once again highlights the extent to which the authorities are going to crack encrypted devices. The man is to remain jailed "until such time that he fully complies" with the decryption order. The government successfully cited a 1789 law known as the All Writs Act to compel (PDF) the suspect to decrypt two hard drives it believes contain child pornography. The All Writs Act was the same law the Justice Department asserted in its legal battle with Apple.
On a completely unrelated note, I read recently that the whole alpha/beta/pack thing is a crock. A wolf pack in the wild doesn't have that structure. What it has is Dad/Mom/kids.
Yep, the "alpha male" is really just Dad. And the "alpha female" is Mom. "Betas" are the kids....
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