On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:53 PM, James S. Tyre <[email protected]> wrote:
> (This is the case in Colorado, not the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals case
> which has been
> much discussed of late.)
>
> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/decryption-flap-mooted
>
> Constitutional Showdown Voided as Feds Decrypt Laptop
>
> By David Kravets
> Email Author
> February 29, 2012 |
> 5:17 pm
>
> 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.
>
> The development ends a contentious legal showdown over whether forcing a
> defendant to
> decrypt a laptop is a breach of the 5th Amendment right against compelled self
> incrimination.
>
> The authorities seized the encrypted Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona
> Fricosu in 2010
> with valid court warrants while investigating alleged mortgage fraud, and
> demanded she
> decrypt it. Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ordered the woman
> in January to
> decrypt the laptop by the end of February. The judge refused to stay his
> decision to allow
> Fricosu time to appeal.
>
> "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.
Perhaps Fricosu reused a password and was on a mailing list using Mailman...
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