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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: El Dorado County, California
 
2012-01-25, 19:56

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Originally Posted by billybobsky View Post
You are just giving the government the rationale for installing backdoors into every bit of commercial encryption software. Unintended consequences and all that...
Translation: "By exercising your Constitutional rights (as currently legally understood), you're giving the government justification to circumvent your ability to exercise those rights."

I don't buy that argument. If it's a right guaranteed by the Constitution (as, to the best of my knowledge, it is until determined otherwise), there is no reasonable justification for being denied that right. Now, if the Powers That Be determine that allowing backdoors in encryption software to provide for a means to circumvent such protection is justifiable, then we would be back to the same rules as apply to search and seizure of personal property and effects, as covered by the Fourth Amendment. If you invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to provide your password, they'll just get a warrant to break the encryption and get the evidence that way.
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