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In reversal, judge orders child porn suspect to decrypt hard drives

Posted on May 28, 2013July 1, 2025 by Dissent

Cyrus Farivar reports:

A federal judge who had previously declined to force a Wisconsin suspect to decrypt several hard drives believed to contain child pornography has now changed his mind. After considering new evidence, the judge wrote in an order last week (PDF) that the Milwaukee-area man now must either enter the passwords for the drives without being observed by law enforcement or government counsel or must provide an unencrypted copy of the data.

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