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What if you made your passphrase itself a confession to a crime? "I shot the sheriff." Then you could claim that supplying your password would constitute self
by ryanwaggoner 15y ago
What if you made your passphrase itself a confession to a crime?
"I shot the sheriff."
Then you could claim that supplying your password would constitute self-incrimination, and so you'd like to invoke your 5th Amendment rights :)
- ComputerGuru 15y agoIt's not testimony. Even confessions can't be used against you if not given in the form of a testimony.
- ryanwaggoner 15y agoSource? Not trying to be snarky, just would like more details. What counts as testimony?
- geoffschmidt 15y agoCeci n'est pas une pipe. Reasonable people are sophisticated enough to understand that there is a difference between using a sentence as a password, and believing that sentence to be true. On a related note, I once looked into changing my middle name to an executable implementation of RSA, so that my passport would be a non-exportable munition. (No go.)
- lawnchair_larry 15y agoWhat was their reason for declining the name change?
- bdonlan 15y agoI would guess that it would be too long if written out in English, and that they'd probably deny a name change to a name that contains characters not normally used in names (asterisks, semicolons, underscores...)
- noblethrasher 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction
- tedunangst 15y agoWhat if you read the article? "Prosecutors in this case have stressed that they don't actually require the passphrase itself"