At 4:54 PM -0700 9/4/00, dis-list@rebelbase.com wrote:
A criminal defendant has the right to remain silent. He cannot be compelled to tell where evidence is located. He cannot be compelled to testify against himself. (BTW, don't even bother, anyone, to bring out the old chestnut of a person picking "I committed this crime" as his passphrase. Dealt with convincingly many years ago.)
Can you expand on that?
I don't remember that issue being dealt with in a legal manner at all.
How many years have you been subscribed? How much of the archives have you searched? In a nutshell, there is a recognized difference between the form of a statement and the content of a statement. A court would stipulate that uttering a passphrase would only be used in the context of the passphrase, not as an admission of guilt. As I said, there's a section in the Cyphernomicon on this. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.