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Lots of things. Namely, they can't prove that you are even able to.
by BHSPitMonkey 13y ago
Lots of things. Namely, they can't prove that you are even able to.
- Crito 13y agoSure they can. When they find your fingerprints on it, your name on the bill, people willing to testify that they consider the number that the phone is associated with to be yours, etc. It's not bulletproof like some sort of mathematical proof, but the law operates with much looser standards of proof.
- drjesusphd 13y agoWhat if I implemented a dead-man's switch so that if I don't respond regularly, it will be impossible for me access data?
- beedogs 13y agoThere are so many things that can be done digitally that bump up against the first, fourth, and fifth amendments as well as laws about the destruction of evidence. It's a mess.
- Crito 13y agoAre you asking what would actually happen if you did this, or what would happen if you told the courts that you could not let them into your phone because you did this?
- dredmorbius 13y agoThen there's the case of destruction of evidence. Depends on a number of circumstances, possibly including whether or not it takes a positive act or merely the lack of an action, on your part, to ensure the data continue to exist.
- BHSPitMonkey 13y agoI didn't say they can't prove the phone belongs to you. They cannot prove that you know or remember the decryption key. Additionally, in U.S. case law there is a precedent for 5th amendment protections applying to being forced to reveal encryption keys: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/appeals-court-upholds-constitutional-right-against-forced-decryption https://www.eff.org/press/releases/appeals-court-upholds-con...