> you could just as easily say that he has no right to privacy for the contents of the harddrive because the contents of his harddrive is "jUsT aN iNtEgEr" I w

> you could just as easily say that he has no right to privacy for the contents of the harddrive because the contents of his harddrive is "jUsT aN iNtEgEr" I would say that this is true, the police should be free to try to brute-force his password or crack the encryption used via some other method that does not involve forcing said person to act (such as disclosing his password). Although in said world the police would not have any reason to attempt to decrypt said data as it would be legal.