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If they can show that you've been using the password regularly, recently, for a while, then not believing a claim to have forgotten seems, if not necessarily co
by dllthomas 11y ago
If they can show that you've been using the password regularly, recently, for a while, then not believing a claim to have forgotten seems, if not necessarily correct, at least not absurd.
If they can't show that, and the file might not have been accessed since it was created years ago, then I think it's unquestionably wrong to ignore the fallibility of human memory.
- mordocai 11y agoGood luck showing that in many cases. Especially if it is an encrypted external drive. I think in most cases they aren't going to be able to show "beyond reasonable doubt" that a person definitely still knows the password.
- dllthomas 11y agoI don't disagree, but I don't think that is a sufficient reason to bear the kind of risk of indefinitely jailing innocents entailed by not requiring such a showing.
- mordocai 11y agoNecroing this, but the proper thing to do is just don't indefinitely jail people without proof of something rather than "requiring" such a showing(you can't really require it since, barring torture/some kind of mind probe, the person can always sit in jail indefinitely and refuse).