Fifth Amendment: Passphrase cannot be forced

[Shawn K. Quinn]

Not sure if this was posted here. Reposting this as it was posted to
RISKS Digest:

> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:21:45 -0500 (EST)
> From: "David Lesher" <wb8foz at 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>

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>