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No legally in the US you are not required to give the keys to the safe, but they can drop your sentence significantly for working with the investigators. For a
by pilom 16y ago
No legally in the US you are not required to give the keys to the safe, but they can drop your sentence significantly for working with the investigators. For a safe, if you don't give them the key, the get a grinder and hack saw, for an encrypted hard drive in the US they give it to the NSA (though 50 chars would be tough for even them i'd expect).
- pyre 16y agoThe NSA doesn't want anyone to know what their capabilities are, but I remember a case where they gave it to a university which threw a cluster at it... edit: 'they' being 'the authorities', not the NSA.