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Re: Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James S. Tyre)
Tue Mar 3 15:21:19 2009
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:08:55 -0800
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre@jstyre.com>
Cc: Adam Fields <cryptography23094893@aquick.org>,cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20090303144517.16f4b544@cs.columbia.edu>
At 02:45 PM 3/3/2009 -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:53:50 -0500
>"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'll repeat: the law is not like a computer program. Courts operate on
> > reasonableness standards and such, not on literal interpretation of
> > the law. If it is obvious to you and me that a disk has multiple
> > encrypted views, then you can't expect that a court will not be able
> > to understand this and take appropriate action, like putting you in a
> > cage.
> >
>Indeed. Let me point folks at
>http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paul/being-acquitted-versus-being-searched-yanal
>-- which was in fact written by a real lawyer, a former prosecutor who
>is now a law professor.
Thanks Steve. As you know, of course, IAARL. And I know and have
worked with Paul. I don't normally do me-too posts, and I don't
normally post to this list at all; but I do want to me too
this. I've been pointing folks to Paul's piece since the day (a
weeks ago) he first published it, it's well worth reading.
-Jim
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