Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!wrf From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin) Subject: Re: How will the police react to secure communications? Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: mab.ecse.rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY References: <17246@venera.isi.edu> <1991Mar22.084413.25223@looking.on.ca> Date: 23 Mar 91 22:43:27 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1991Mar22.084413.25223@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > >Will the courts be able to force you to reveal your code, or will this >be considered unfair self-incrimination under the bills of rights? Well, the courts already have forced people to sign orders to foreign banks telling the bank to reveal the person's account info. Sorry, I lied. The courts didn't FORCE anyone to do anything; just made it a condition of their purging a charge of criminal contempt (for refusing to reveal the info in the first place) and getting out of jail. Contempt is a crime with a life sentence w/o parole. One way to avoid bill-of-rights problems (and beyond-reasonable-doubt problems) is to make it a civil case. -- Wm. Randolph Franklin Internet: wrf@ecse.rpi.edu (or @cs.rpi.edu) Bitnet: Wrfrankl@Rpitsmts Telephone: (518) 276-6077; Telex: 6716050 RPI TROU; Fax: (518) 276-6261 Paper: ECSE Dept., 6026 JEC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy NY, 12180