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Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop | Threat Level | Wired.com.
So that all is clear: this ruling means that your right to not incriminate yourself doesn’t protect you from having to unencrypt your laptop, but it does protect you from having the fact that you DID unencrypt it used against you.
This case, notably, isn’t about whether or not the police can force you to unencrypt your laptop as part of a search, i.e. your 4th Amendment rights in this situation. Which is something that I can’t help but wonder about. Zoom

Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop | Threat Level | Wired.com.

So that all is clear: this ruling means that your right to not incriminate yourself doesn’t protect you from having to unencrypt your laptop, but it does protect you from having the fact that you DID unencrypt it used against you.

This case, notably, isn’t about whether or not the police can force you to unencrypt your laptop as part of a search, i.e. your 4th Amendment rights in this situation. Which is something that I can’t help but wonder about.

Posted on Wednesday, February 8 2012. Tagged with: laptop5th amendmentlaptopencryptioncase
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