A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant’s attorney said Monday.
The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with a court warrant while investigating alleged mortgage fraud. Ruling that the woman’s 5th Amendment rights against compelled self-incrimination would not be breached, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ordered the woman in January to decrypt the laptop.
“It’s very possible to forget passwords,” the woman’s attorney, Philip Dubois, said in a telephone interview. “It’s not clear to me she was the one who set up the encryption on this drive. I don’t know if she will be able to decrypt it.”
The decryption case is a complicated one, even if solely analyzed on the underlying 5th Amendment issue. Such decryption orders are rare, and they have never squarely been addressed by the Supreme Court.
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That made me laugh.
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I have a true crypt volume that I can't for the life of me remember the password. But I hold keep in case some day I do remember it. In Canada they get a warrant to break into your house and install key loggers on your system covertly.
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That is f*cked up.
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I wonder if the password is something like this:
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