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Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Mar 3 12:32:40 2009
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:26:32 -0500
Quoting:
A federal judge has ordered a criminal defendant to decrypt his
hard drive by typing in his PGP passphrase so prosecutors can view
the unencrypted files, a ruling that raises serious concerns about
self-incrimination in an electronic age.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10172866-38.html
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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