[craftkiller]

Wow, that's a lot against this guy, but hypothetically couldn't compelling him to decrypt his drives based on a file hash set a dangerous precedent where police can just plant file hashes somewhere to get access to anyone's drives? Sort of the high tech version of the drug dogs that would signal on cue.

[tedunangst]

They could also plant an unencrypted drive and skip the whole getting the password step.

[blusterXY]

Then they would need access to the images and not just knowledge of the hashes.

[taneq]

If they're going to ignore that pesky 'staying within the law' step they might as well just lock him up indefinitely right now.

[mjolk]

They're staying within the law -- the defendant being in violation of the law is why an order to comply was filed and why we have access to the court of appeals document.

If you don't like the process, that's a different conversation.

[TheRealDunkirk]

Eighteen months without a charge. I think they're way ahead of you. IMO, they've already abrogated his 6th-Amendment right to a speedy trial as well.

[Fjolsvith]

There are a lot of things that waive the speedy trial right. If a defendant files pretty much any kind of motion, the speedy trial timeframe goes out the window.

[taneq]

That's actually where I was going with that - maybe I should have put that /s or ;) at the end of the post after all. :)