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How is that more troubling than: "you can now be thrown in prison on no more evidence than the presence of a few pieces of paper in a filing cabinet that the p

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• gambiting 13y ago
  Because with a pendrive you can't even prove that the paper is there. It could literally be random data, and the police could be insisting that you give them a password. If you did a full wipe of a pendrive with random data,and didn't create a filesystem, you would now have a device that could be used to incriminate you, even thought it really, really isn't encrypted. But you can't prove that. So I guess that if I were to use your analogy, the police would look through your cabinet, find a few pieces of paper,and then demand that you tell them how to read that invisible ink that you used on the paper. What ink? - you might ask. But it's irrelevant, you can still go to jail for not telling, even though there really is no ink.
  • toyg 13y ago
    Planting evidence is a practice as old as law enforcement though...
  • harryh 13y ago
    Has anything ever actually gone to jail for refusing to decrypt data that wasn't actually real data? This is why we have judges. In order for a warrant to be issued and enforced there has to be evidence that there is something there to search for.