Fifth Amendment: Passphrase cannot be forced

5 Feb 2008


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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:21:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "David Lesher" <wb8foz@panix.com>
Subject: Fifth Amendment: Passphrase cannot be forced
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man accused of
transporting child pornography has a Fifth Amendment right to keep his
password in his head, not give it to prosecutors.
In other words, the Fifth Amendment protects the right to keep
passwords.
<http://www.volokh.com/files/Boucher.pdf>
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Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@speakeasy.net>