US: Forced Decrypt, Right to Remain Innocent, Rubber Hosing

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 18:40:48 PDT 2017


https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/03/20/207244/sorry-ive-forgotten-my-decryption-password-is-contempt-of-court-pal---us-appeal-judges
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/20/appeals_court_contempt_passwords/

The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court
ruling of contempt against an ex-cop who claimed he couldn't remember
the password to decrypt his computer's hard drives.
In so doing, the appeals court in Philadelphia avoided addressing a
lower court's rejection of the defendant's argument that being forced
to reveal his password violated his Fifth Amendment protection against
self-incrimination.
In the case under review, the US District Court for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania held the defendant – referred to in court
documents as "John Doe" because his case is partially under seal – in
contempt of court for willfully disobeying and resisting an order to
decrypt external hard drives that had been attached to his Mac Pro
computer.
The defendant's computer, two external hard drives, an iPhone 5S, and
an iPhone 6 Plus were seized......

Don't Talk to the Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FENubmZGj8

More Hosed fighting back...
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article139657118.html


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