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The case is interesting. The woman in question is being charged with various securities fraud crimes with having illegally obtained deeds of houses about to go into foreclosure, but the prosecutors are having problems because she seems to have used very strong encryption on her laptop. They're now saying that they don't want her password, they just want her to unlock her laptop so they can inspect the files therein.
I can't imagine this being anything except self-incrimination.
In England it is a crime to not provide an encryption password if the gov't asks for it. I wonder how long before we have such a law here. TrueCrypt has a feature called plausible deniability in which you have a password for your real info, and another password that unlocks the volume in such a way that your secure data is still secure, I imagine we'll be seeing it getting adopted a lot more.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20078312-281/doj-we-can-force-you-to-decrypt-that-laptop/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1531259/DOJ-We-Can-Force-You-To-Decrypt-That-Laptop
I can't imagine this being anything except self-incrimination.
In England it is a crime to not provide an encryption password if the gov't asks for it. I wonder how long before we have such a law here. TrueCrypt has a feature called plausible deniability in which you have a password for your real info, and another password that unlocks the volume in such a way that your secure data is still secure, I imagine we'll be seeing it getting adopted a lot more.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20078312-281/doj-we-can-force-you-to-decrypt-that-laptop/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/1531259/DOJ-We-Can-Force-You-To-Decrypt-That-Laptop
