Reply to post: Re: A doofus, with weak lawyers, but the law is broken

Computing student jailed after failing to hand over crypto keys

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Re: A doofus, with weak lawyers, but the law is broken

"If Alice and Bob shares a computer and the police finds a folder with encrypted files, proving who knows the decryption key is virtually impossible."

Wouldn't they just respond they're BOTH in cahoots and covering each other's butt? I still have to wonder what happens when someone gets charged and the police discover a drive full of pure random data? Given encrypted partition design, it's going to be very hard to argue it really is random data (say for a one-time pad) and not an encrypted partition the suspect is trying to cover up.

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