Re: [cryptography] US Appeals Court upholds right not to decrypt a drive
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In the same tone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc 2012/2/24 Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
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From: Benjamin Kreuter <brk7bx@virginia.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:59:19 -0500 To: jamesd@echeque.com Cc: cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] US Appeals Court upholds right not to decrypt a drive X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i686-redhat-linux-gnu)
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:30:57 +1000 "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
So: Don't talk to police about the contents of your drive, or indeed anything of which they might potentially disapprove.
I believe that you meant to say, "Don't talk to the police at all," which should be standard policy for anyone who finds themselves under arrest. There is no advantage in talking to the police once you have been arrested, nothing you say will help in your defense and you are not going to talk your way out of an arrest. The odds are stacked against you during a police interview -- you are talking to people who have been trained to extract confessions, who are being paid to sit there interrogating you, and who will pick through what you say to find incriminating statements. Stay quiet, speak only to your attorney, and let your attorney speak on your behalf; you cannot be penalized for exercising your rights, nor can the fact that you refused to speak be introduced as evidence against you (at least in the United States).
-- Ben
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