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Apparently not, although I though I had read of an earlier case where there was a judge that ruled that a password had to be revealed. http://www.usatoday.com/

• ck2 16y ago
  Yeah that's the border - slightly different, though they also set up border checks hundreds of miles "inland" around the country which makes their intentions suspect. What I hate about all these cases is it comes down to child porn which makes it impossible to defend. Why can't it be something mundane that actually shows why this is a REALLY bad idea. I just saw a scary university lecture on youtube on why you should NEVER talk to to the police, even to "explain things", even if you know you are 1000% not guilty of whatever they are after. So now it makes perfect sense to me that if they want to go trolling across your hard drive, they are doing exactly that - you are testifying against yourself for whatever charges they want to invent afterwards.
• evgen 16y ago
  In the US there are conflicting precedents at the moment, so it really depends on where the case is being heard. At the moment the case that seems to have the strongest route to the Supremes is the one involving child porn at the border, allowing the court to address both the "are passwords protected" question and the legality of laptop border searches. Unfortunately for the cyberliberty crowd this particular case is the last one they want to see before the court, the facts are not good and it provides an easy excuse for a "law and order" majority on the court to significantly extend the government's reach.