A federal district court in Vermont has ruled that the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination does not bar the government from requiring Sebastien Boucher, who faces charges of possessing child pornography, to decrypt his laptop hard drive. A lower court had previously quashed a subpoena c...

A Vermont judge has ruled that a man detained at the border for possible child pornography possession should be required to type in his PGP encryption key so that his computer can be examined. Sebastien Boucher, who a border guard claims had child porn on his Alienware [...]...

In my post discussing the demise of Miranda, I approvingly quoted the author’s mention of videotaping confessions as a possible solution. Scott writes today and warns us not to get too invested in videotaped confessions and why they may not be the answer. He is correct in that videotaped confe...