[Buge]

>His sister reported him to the police and 'content stored on the encrypted hard drive matched file hashes for known child pornography content'.

If that's evidence enough to hold him in jail indefinitely then it's evidence enough to convict him. So convict him using it. There's no need to force him to self-incriminate.

If it's not evidence enough then the alternative to this is do good police work that doesn't require holding suspects in jail indefinitely until they incriminate themselves.

>I couldn't live in a world where a suspect could say "Well, I forgot the password" and walk away Scott-free on such an ugly crime.

What if it was a slightly different scenario. What if instead of encrypting the child porn he deleted it right before the police came in. Would it be ok if he was held in jail indefinitely until he confessed? What if we just hold all suspects in jail indefinitely until they confess?

[stef25]

The biggest "what if" is, what if he actually did forget the password? I have an encrypted backup of an old computer that I actually have forgotten the password for. The only reason I keep it is because I think there's a small amount of LTC on there. I wonder if I should delete it in case police ever get their hands on my drive.