On 4/26/2011 11:06 PM, Henry Paul wrote:
> Maybe I don't have a proper understanding of the 5th Amendment, but my
> understanding is it is to protect you from providing self-incriminating
> testimony, not self-incriminating evidence. Maybe it's the digital vs.
> tangible argument again perhaps, but in a murder trial I doubt you would
> be able to deny an order to hand over blood-soaked clothes under the
> protection of the 5th.
>
> --Henry
An excellent point.  I think my statement regarding 5th Amendment 
protection would be false with that in mind.  I still don't know how not 
giving them encryption passphrases would work out, but there we go for 
one facet of the thought.

-Tod Hansmann

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