Constitutional showdown voided: Feds decrypt laptop without defendant’s help

By David Kravets
ArsTechnica
Mar. 02, 2012

Colorado federal authorities have decrypted a laptop seized from a bank-fraud defendant, mooting a judge’s order that the defendant unlock the hard drive so the government could use its contents as evidence against her.

[...]“They must have used or found successful one of the passwords the co-defendant provided them,” Fricosu’s attorney, Philip Dubois, said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

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