Here's the original story in the Houston Chronicle: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3101557 "During the arrest, they discovered that the woman had stored sexually explicit photos of herself in her cell phone, and Green downloaded the images onto his personal digital assistant, according to the search request." FileVault and PGPdisk are handy utilities: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/filevault/ http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgpdisk/ https://store.pgp.com/ -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Nude Pix Put Cops In a Fix Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:37:46 +0000 From: Scott H. <zuker5@hotmail.com> To: declan@well.com Not sure if this is of interest for Politech, but it sure seems beyond the pale of unreasonable search and seizure (small pun). Hypothetically, what if the phone had a picture of the woman in question standing over a dead person in back of her home? Is this a warrantless search and if they find the body in her home is this fruit from a poisoned tree? Do the police have a right to search through all the "data" a person has in thier possession at the time of arrest? What about a USB flash drive? Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1759%2C1779743%2C00.asp _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]