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		pmontra on Oct 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. Law Enforcement Seeks to Halt Apple-Google En... They can ask. A court order to reveal your password is enough. If you don't comply you usually run into troubles. This Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law explains how it works in some countries. There has been a ruling about that in the USA recently http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/06/26/mass-supreme-court-defen...

TheLoneWolfling on Oct 1, 2014 [–]

So how does that work if you are using an encryption method that allows plausible-deniability?

"Legally, you must give us the key which probably does not exist"

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