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billybobsky
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Join Date: May 2004
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2012-01-23, 21:05

Its not a loss of an additional freedom. A warrant for the contents of the computer include the decrypted files. If a suspect does not provide the details to decrypt them, they should be able to be charged with obstructing an investigation and compelled to allow the police to complete the actions defined in the warrant. This is no different than the safe example.

This is one place where the Bill of Rights protection against self-incrimination hasn't been brought up to modern interpretations. A password isn't a statement that of-itself is incriminating, and thus doesn't represent self-incrimination when revealed.

I'd rather have the prosecution have the ability to compel a password than the government to be provided backdoors to every bit of software out there.
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