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Re: Re: Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop - CNET News


From: chmod1777 () invalid-host name
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:56:40 -0700

If I'm not mistaken (and I'm pretty sure that I'm not) It's not a civil right. Based on some of the responses from 
some, I'd reckon that many don't even know what those really are. The person ALREADY allowed a search, and illegal 
material was found. They KNOW it's on there. This isn't an unreasonable search or seizure, and it's not violating his 
rights. He has ALREADY been caught. All he is doing at this point is HIDING evidence, and obstructing justice. He does 
not have the right to do that. 

Now, had he not submitted in the very beginning, the outcome would have been quite different I'm sure of that. 

But to say that there is this mass loss of rights is bloody ridiculous. You don't have a right to commit a crime, be 
caught, and then hide the evidence and obstruct the legal process. It only works that way in fairyland. 


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