Thursday, December 20, 2007

Judge: Americans can't be forced to divulge crypto passwords

A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can't force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase.U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop

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