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[USA] Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone (reason.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

By physical here, they mean using your biometrics by force. They're still not allowed to beat you with a rubber hose.

A court, however, can force you to give up a password or hold you in contempt (which is essentially the rubber hose option). Having false unlocks defeats that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

A court, however, can force you to give up a password or hold you in contempt (which is essentially the rubber hose option)

That remains to be seen; I don't think that there's ever been a definitive ruling on this in the US. One real problem is that they would have to be able to prove that you knew the password, and that can be a real problem. I have an old Tails drive; it's been years since I used it, and I have no idea what the password is anymore. Shit, I sometimes have a brain fart and can't remember the passphrase for my password manager, and I use that a lot.