news.com — 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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Closed AccountDec 16, 2007
I couldn't have said it better myself. This is an example of punishment for thought crime. In the case of animation; it is worse, cartoon abuse crime. I could go to google and find several thousand anime/manga sites in a manner of seconds I am sure. This has to be a form of distraction because I can see no other reason for any of this to have taken place.What will happen when someone has a cartoon of something bad happening to say...Bush? Oh wait, tons of that already exists. Why aren't those people being punished? Pretty soon we will have to have LCD goggles to use our laptops for fear that someone might see a political satire cartoon and thus end up in gitmo for 300 years.
leetdoodDec 20, 2007
Why am i being dugg down?<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon#Legal_status_in_Canada">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon#Legal_status_ ...</a>
olsoneaDec 20, 2007
They can't convict based solely on the testimony of the officers. They are not experts in the field of forensic or photograph. I call Photoshop to the witness stand.
olsoneaDec 20, 2007
I hide my PGP passphrase in my shoes!
Closed AccountMay 19, 2008
quote wiki = fail.That section of the criminal was struck down by the supreme court.
ipsidixitJul 28, 2009
Well, before you cheer think of this: The only reason it doesn't need your encryption key is because the state as logged every single website you've ever visited, every single e-mail you've ever sent/received and probably key-logged ever single keystroke you've ever entered on your keyboard. Not to mention the fact that the encryption programme is legal only because the level of encryption is sufficiently low that it can easily be broken by the NSA.