[curun1r]

That was the answer the man in the case gave. The judge believes he's lying. His 16 months of imprisonment show that his problem is far from solved.

The better answer is to have a second encrypted volume on the disk. Perhaps put a few pirated movies on it or some personal documents as a justification for why it's encrypted. That way, when they ask you to enter your password, you enter that one and unlock the volume that's mostly not incriminating. The way that TrueCrypt and other encryption programs work, it's impossible to prove that there is a second encrypted volume.

[donovanm]

Seems a bit harsh to be detained for 16 months because a judge thinks you're lying.

[rodgerd]

People say they didn't commit murders, too. Sometimes they claim that their wife ran off to Russia and that the whole murder case is an attempt by the Russian Mafia to frame the defendant.

Strangely enough, the courts are happy to decide something smells like bullshit and imprison people because of it.