[IP] Can you be compelled to give a password? [was: Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd]
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 28, 2006 2:11:45 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Can you be compelled to give a password? [was: Police
Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd]
On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:32 PM, David Farber wrote:
I don't believe it is a crime in any US Federal or State law, or in
Canadian law, to set passwords and use encryption. In the US, I
believe that a warrant would be necessary for law enforcement to
ask for your password, but I don't know if you have to comply. IANAL.
That is a good question - Can you be compelled to give up a
password? Would you mind posting it to IP, I am interested in the
answer.
Seems there might be some 'self-incriminatory' arguments here.
Perhaps even an "unreasonable search" argument. But IANAL.
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TTFN,
patrick
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