> They could pass a law that mandates stiff penalties for people who decline to provide their encryption password in the face of a warrant. It's interesting th

> They could pass a law that mandates stiff penalties for people who decline to provide their encryption password in the face of a warrant. It's interesting though -- or scary, even -- that this would mean forgetting the password to an encrypted volume could land you in jail. You don't have the means to prove you're innocent (by providing the password and revealing the data), and because of this you're thrown in jail. It doesn't seem fair to me. Basically, the authorities are saying "we claim you have illegal encrypted data on that disk". If you cannot prove to us that you don't, you're going to jail. The outcome of this is that even a suspicion can land you in jail. It's on you to prove you're innocent, not on the authorities to prove you're guilty.