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See, but if you refused to open a safe for the cops, their fallback would be to drill it, not incarcerate you for failure to disclose the combination. Under tha
by OkayPhysicist 4y ago
See, but if you refused to open a safe for the cops, their fallback would be to drill it, not incarcerate you for failure to disclose the combination. Under that precedence, the cops have the right to try and crack my phone's encryption, but not to compel me to give them my passwords.
- namdnay 4y agoBecause they have a fallback. I presume that if someone were to invent an uncrackable safe they would adopt the same stance as encryption
- PeterisP 4y agoBut they can charge and punish you for refusing to open the safe, that's obstruction of justice even if they could drill it and drilled it.
- Karellen 4y ago> if you refused to open a safe for the cops, their fallback would be to drill it, not incarcerate you for failure to disclose the combination. Or, more likely, they would do both. They would drill it, and prosecute you for failing to comply with a valid court order (obstruction of justice, interfering with an investigation, contempt of court, or whatever...).