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What if the passcode you use is a confession to another crime?
by voxic11 10y ago
What if the passcode you use is a confession to another crime?
- geofft 10y agoI continue to not be a lawyer, but my guess is the government will make that particular passcode inadmissible as evidence in the second crime, and then demand it for prosecuting the first crime. My impression is the legal system is generally good at Seeing What You Did There and is rarely amused. See, e.g., Sega v. Accolade, where it turns out that you can't implement a DRM system that consists solely of forcing people to display your trademark, and then sue them for trademark infringement.
- vivekd 10y agodoesn't matter, if the police stumble onto incriminating evidence in the course of the ordinary and legal investigation of a crime, it can be used in court.
- EpicEng 10y agoI imagine it would fall under the same category as the police discovering a dead body in your home while performing a legal, unrelated search (you're going to jail).