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If your password itself was an admission of guilt then would that count as testimony and protected under the Fifth Amendment?
by tylorr 7y ago
If your password itself was an admission of guilt then would that count as testimony and protected under the Fifth Amendment?
- nneonneo 7y agoIf you pleaded the fifth on your password, the court might be able to compel you to enter the password such that they don’t get the password but do get the data. The next question is, if doing so immediately decrypts a file (e.g. a text file) which is a direct admission of guilt, can you plead the fifth against the decryption process itself, esp. if the government isn’t already aware that such a “guilt declaration” exists?