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Feds Want Judge to Force Suspect to Give Up Laptop PasswordBy David KravetsWired Jan. 05, 2012 |
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 Federal prosecutors want a judge to order a Colorado woman to provide the password to decrypt her laptop, which the government seized with a search warrant. With backup from digital rights groups, the woman is fighting the feds, arguing that being forced to provide her password violates the Fifth Amendment’s protection against forced self-incrimination. [...]The feds also played the terror card. Davies said that, if the defendant is not compelled to unlock her computer, that would amount “to a concession to her and potential criminals (be it in child exploitation, national security, terrorism, financial crimes or drug trafficking cases) that encrypting all inculpatory digital evidence will serve to defeat the efforts of law enforcement officers to obtain such evidence through judicially authorized search warrants, and thus make their prosecution impossible.” Read More |
