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Reference?

• jo909 9y ago
  http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/153537p.pdf http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/153537p.pdf Despite Doe’s refusal, f orensic analysts discovered the password to decrypt the Mac Pro Computer , but could not de crypt the external hard drives. [...] The Forensic examination also disclosed that Doe had downloaded thousands of files known by their “hash ” values to be child pornography. 3 The files, however, were not on the Mac Pro, but i nstead had been stored on the encrypted external hard drives. Accordingly, the files themselves could not be accessed.
  • Arnt 9y ago
    Thanks.
• cmiles74 9y ago
  It sounds like they suspect the files were downloaded directly to the external drive, perhaps there's a pointer in a log file or something with the path. Clearly they haven't proven that, hence their wish to inspect the decrypted drive. IMHO, if they really wanted to charge him and take him to trial, they have plenty of evidence. I doubt a jury would be sympathetic to the "I forgot my password" argument and the logic would be that if the files _were not_ on the external drive then he would willingly decrypt it to prove as much.