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You are begging the question of whether decrypting a hard drive is a violation of your Fifth Amendment rights.
by danielweber 13y ago
You are begging the question of whether decrypting a hard drive is a violation of your Fifth Amendment rights.
- rosser 13y agoYour 5th Amendment rights are completely and utterly irrelevant to their decrypting your drive.
- yebyen 13y agoUnless you are the one who is being compelled to decrypt the drive. Producing the key is an act of testimony. You could not state for the record, the passphrase for the key, if you did not know it. Breaking his crypto in some way, to access his files without cooperation, on the other hand... that is no fifth-amendment violation, to be sure. It also doesn't prove that he's been in control or owns the data.