There has been a lot of discussion regarding the Boucher case in many, many forums. (fora?)
Overall, the majority feeling seems to be that Boucher gave up his fifth amendment protections when he showed the unencrypted disk contents to federal officials. The question that I think is more interesting is how the government's unrestricted right to search at a border crossing applies to the searching of laptops and cell phones. On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:15 PM, SafeBoot Simon wrote: > this is more interesting than it deserves to be ;-) We seem to be left > with the dilemma of what protects Boucher from penalty if he keeps > quiet... > > For those interested, here are those cheeky amendments... > > http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment04/ > > http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment05/ > > I also found another interesting, but unrelated paper re the first > amendment for those perhaps not so familiar with the workings of the > constitution. > > http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/facilitating.pdf > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde > _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
