Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives 802
An anonymous reader writes "After having first decided against forcing a suspect to decrypt a number of hard drives that were believed to be his and to contain child pornography, a U.S. judge has changed his mind and has now ordered the suspect to provide law enforcement agents heading the investigation with a decrypted version of the contents of his encrypted data storage system, or the passwords needed to decrypt forensic copies of those storage devices. Jeffrey Feldman, a software developer at Rockwell Automation, has still not been charged with any crime, and the prosecution initially couldn't prove conclusively that the encrypted hard drives contained child pornography or were actually Feldman's, which led U.S. Magistrate Judge William Callahan to decide that forcing him to decrypt them would violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. But new evidence has made the judge reverse his first decision (PDF): the FBI has continued to try to crack the encryption on the discs, and has recently managed to decrypt and access one of the suspect's hard drives... The storage device was found to contain 'an intricate electronic folder structure comprised of approximately 6,712 folders and subfolders,' approximately 707,307 files (among them numerous files which constitute child pornography), detailed personal financial records and documents belonging to the suspect, as well as dozens of his personal photographs."
Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Without being observed? WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
It's a kinda roundabout way of saying, "You can't [or at least don't need to] give or show them the secret spell, but you better perform it and release the rune for the witches to see, or may they rain hell on you from every applicable plane of existence."
(Magic analogy, because car analogies are so passé.)
Re:Here's his best defense.. (Score:5, Funny)
He should have made his password or passphrase be
"I do not have the password"
Then, when asked for the password, he could truthfully state that his answer is "I do not have the password". Of course, a few weasely questions that he may be required to answer truthfully could shake this, but hey, why not for a first step?
Or possibly:
"I don't need no stinkin' password"
"This is not my drive."
"I forgot my password" as the passphrase!
"I assert my fifth amendment rights"
"I respectfully assert my fifth amendment rights"
"Fuck you" (J_1: what is your password? R_1: fuck you J1:Que? Off to jail! R_1: I answered fully and truthfully!)
Re:FBI shits on the constitution. (Score:4, Funny)
Forgot to check the AC checkbox?
Re:Good (Score:1, Funny)
You're so angry about this you sound like you're a repressed paedophile.
Be honest son, you like the little ones don't you?
Re:Good (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah pedophiles and their pictures of half naked 16 year old girls are sick. I reported my brother yesterday for taking pictures of his daughters football game, sick fuck, doesn't he know there are half naked 16 year old girls bouncing around down there?
What a monster.
Re:apparently (Score:4, Funny)
No it just proves he's anal-retentive in categorizing his porn.
> "a software developer at Rockwell Automation,"
My first thought: ooh, a software job is opening up at Rockwell.
Re:FBI shits on the constitution. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm one hour away from full decryption and sellout of the entire USA economy, and you can't stop me.
No, but your mom can. She just called down the stairs that your Hot Pockets are done.
Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, that's a lot of CP!!!