There are such laws in UK, I read about a kid jailed for not wanting to give them the pass to his encrypted partitions, I think. But not in US, for example, they recently caught a hacker (Moxie Marlinspike - maybe many people here know the story), he refused to give them the pass, but they could not do him anything but temporarily confiscating his cellphone and laptop (IIRC) for investigations, or something.
Btw of Marlinspike, people who don't know it already (again, I fear that I'm coming with old news :P) might find this interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScMl2_9Duao - he basically puts into words what people can just perceive about the subversive information control methods. On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:10:04 -0500 "Adam M. Dutko" <[email protected]> wrote: > IANAL but can't they hold you in jail for contempt or "insert charge > here" until you hand it over. I thought I remember something similar > in the news recently. -- Mihai Militaru <[email protected]>
