Warrants might not be able to break encryption, but refusing to provide the passcode can land you in jail indefinitely for contempt. You could serve decades pot

Warrants might not be able to break encryption, but refusing to provide the passcode can land you in jail indefinitely for contempt. You could serve decades potentially. The fear from law enforcement is absurd. They've never had the ability to read every single letter that was sent, but now that we've moved online they want to read every email? They claim they are losing access but the truth was they never had access in the first place. The only difference is before maybe they could secretly read your letters before delivering them but now they need to get your password. That only worked at a small scale though, and I'm sure the NSA can crack passwords at those same small scales (e.g. some of the high-profile iphone cracking we've seen).