“Of course, the contents of the hard drive might incriminate Rawls, but the contents of the hard drive are not considered testimony for Fifth Amendment purposes.”
Does anyone remember the first person in the UK to be jailed for not releasing his decryption key ? He was a schizophrenic person had was randomly stopped coming back from France. He was jailed for a year. There was no hint of any crime. He was sticking up for his principles and highly obsessive.
The dangers to these laws are great, someone may have genuinely forgotten the password. It’s not considered an offence.
Or worse yet. Authorities could claim random bytes are encrypted.
In reality. With sort of arrest there’s no way to tell that the authorities didn’t plant evidence or even no evidence even exists.
Welcome to the 21st century. Where even the Netherlands fabricates evidence and gets away with it.
The defense of people involved in the iran-contra scandal was entirely based around the phrase "I have no clear recollection of those events". Funny how they didn't have to spend years in jail until they remembered.
