Can you be compelled to give a password? [was: Police

[Patrick W. Gilmore]

On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:32 PM, David Farber wrote:

> I don't believe it is a crime in any US Federal or State law, or in
> Canadian law, to set passwords and use encryption.  In the US, I
> believe that a warrant would be necessary for law enforcement to
> ask for your password, but I don't know if you have to comply.
IANAL.

That is a good question - Can you be compelled to give up a
password?  Would you mind posting it to IP, I am interested in the
answer.

Seems there might be some 'self-incriminatory' arguments here.
Perhaps even an "unreasonable search" argument.  But IANAL.

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TTFN,
patrick


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