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Why is information from your mind, like your phone passphrase, significantly different from other information to your mind, like the location of a physical key?

• Fnoord 10y ago
  > Why is information from your mind, like your phone passphrase, significantly different from other information to your mind, like the location of a physical key? In the USA because of the Fifth Amendment which protects individuals from being forced to incriminate themselves. [1] Other (civilised) countries have similar laws. Which makes something like the UK law which forces an individual to reveal their private key, at conflict. Specifically about my own country, The Netherlands recently adopted a revision of the computer criminality law (it being v3 of it). It is called the 'hack back law' because one major part of it is it allows the police to hack suspects. That's not all it is about though. Of note, the part scrapped was the one about a suspect being forced to hand over their private key. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Self-incrimination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
  • ori_b 10y ago
    That doesn't answer my question. Why is giving one piece of remembered information that leads to incriminating evidence treated differently from another?