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This. The police will lie and the judge will take their word. In my case the police said they can break 2048-bit AES encryption easily and as a backup could uns
by kingcharles 5y ago
This. The police will lie and the judge will take their word. In my case the police said they can break 2048-bit AES encryption easily and as a backup could unsolder the chips (they didn't say which chips) and put them in another device to get the data. The judge believed it all. The police had no qualifications in computer science or encryption.
- godelski 5y agoThis is a bit insane. You mention in another comment you spent 8 years in jail because you didn't give your password. Does a judge not connect the two things and say "okay, well why haven't you done that then?" Seems like if they could (I know they can't) then they would be wasting everyone's time.
- kingcharles 5y agoThe law is a bit complicated. I did give up my password when they threatened my wife. The judge ruled they obtained my password by coercion so they weren't permitted to use it. But then they came forward and said they would have eventually cracked my encryption anyway as they can crack 2048-bit AES easily, and even if they couldn't have cracked the encryption they would have unsoldered the chips (which chips?) and put them in another device and got access that way. The judge said in that case you can use the password you got through coercion because you would have got in anyway. That is allowed by the law, in the USA at least.
- godelski 5y agoI assume that your lawsuit is that they couldn't have actually done that? Honestly sounds like a shitty judge. That's fucked up (even if you did something fucked up).