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Pholus

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4. So the takeaway seems to be to always play dumb about encryption?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2014, 05:20 PM

Jun 2014

The sad thing is that you are seeing the first government encroachments into your mind. This one seems to fly in the face of other similar cases in that it appears admitting the existence of the password screws you.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/identity/passwords-tangled-in-fifth-amendment/131

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/17/should_the_government_search_your_brain/

Baby steps to a frightening future, given the ongoing research in trying to map out the brain. I knew the fifth was basically dead the night I read this one prosecutor's opinion that forcible application of some magical mind-reading device would not constitute a violation of the fifth amendment because the fifth is rooted in free will and the machine would take that away.

The implications of that are simply awesome. Piss tests would seem quaint at that point.

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Massachusetts high court says accused criminal must decrypt computers for police [View all] Eugene Jun 2014 OP

what happens if he refuses? savalez Jun 2014 #1

The court got this one wrong. BillZBubb Jun 2014 #2

Agreed.... sdfernando Jun 2014 #3

So the takeaway seems to be to always play dumb about encryption? Pholus Jun 2014 #4

My takeaway... Styx Jun 2014 #5