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I'm pretty sure there have been cases where you're required to hand over the password. But if you use truecrypt and make a shadow OS, you can hand over the pass
by Jach 15y ago
I'm pretty sure there have been cases where you're required to hand over the password. But if you use truecrypt and make a shadow OS, you can hand over the password for the fake OS with nothing serious on it and they cannot prove the existence of a shadow OS to demand a password for. Some time ago someone also mentioned that if you remember a passphrase + key and sha it for your password, then you can legally say you don't remember your password even though you know (one possible way) to generate it.
- eli 15y ago"...then you can legally say you don't remember your password even though you know (one possible way) to generate it." Another theory I do not recommend testing in court.
- getsat 15y agoThere's some precedent both ways: You can't be forced: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9834495-38.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9834495-38.html You can be forced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Boucher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Boucher Though, in the latter case he had previously given access to his system.
- eli 15y agoAnd the prior took place at the border, where the Bill of Rights inexplicably does not always apply.
- getsat 15y agoYup, it's the Constitution-free Zone. http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty... The authors of the Federalist Papers were against a specific enumeration of individual rights because they feared that those rights would become the only ones we had. They were prescient in some ways, but I doubt any of them foresaw the entire Constitution being suspended.