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[Andy Ruddock]

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Neal Dudley wrote:
> On 12/27/08 2:46 PM, "Robert J. Hansen" <rjh at sixdemonbag.org> wrote:
> 
>> The district attorney has you arrested.  Your machine is seized.
>> You and your lawyer have a sit-down with the DA.  The DA says
>> "look, you say you're innocent, fine.  But you've got twenty gigs
>> of encrypted data here.  Now, you can either decrypt it and show me
>> that there's nothing illegal on there, or I can go down to the
>> grand jury and get subpoenas on your hard drive, your property,
>> your financial records, your /everything/, and we'll go all the way
>> with anything we find."
> 
> http://www.volokh.com/files/Boucher.pdf
> 
> Either your lawyer knows this is a violation of your 5th Amendment
> Right and you both get up and leave, or you fire him and hire a
> better lawyer.
> 
> Doesn't anyone read Slashdot anymore? 
> http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/2028235

Which may, or may not, be the case in the US. But I'm pretty sure I read
of other countries who don't have this 5th amendment of which you speak.

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