[Wingman4l7]

Apparently that's about $3,400 ($170 x 20): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_units

A year of incarcerating someone is only worth $3,400 to the government? Strange, considering that if you're going to be pedantic about money, the cost of incarceration is surely at least one order of magnitude more than that.

[lmm]

It's not about how much it costs to do it, it's about the effect on the subject. $3,400 is a lot to a typical criminal.

[Wingman4l7]

We're talking about a particular subset of criminal/person that can afford a computer, has the knowledge and forethought to encrypt it, and is committing a type of crime/action which makes the state want to see the encrypted contents of said computer badly enough to invoke that law. I would think that someone in that subset could easily afford $3,400.