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This seems clearly incompatible with Fifth Amendment. Any real cases where the person is held in prison for not revealing a password? In case of authoritarian
by stracer 3y ago
This seems clearly incompatible with Fifth Amendment. Any real cases where the person is held in prison for not revealing a password?
In case of authoritarian government likely to interfere with person's life, do not use just remembered passwords at all, but password in combination with strong keys that are frequently automatically changed so no one can remember them, and have a panic button that destroys all access to encrypted data.
> The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the accused from being forced to incriminate themselves in a crime. The Amendment reads:
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> No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incrimination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incrimination
> in United States v. Doe, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled on 24 February 2012 that forcing the decryption of one's laptop violates the Fifth Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law