Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!nntp.eutelia.it!news.edisontel.com!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: From: antoniof@bigfoot.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: japan.actress,japan.fishing.fly Subject: In People v. Price in Yolo County, California Superior Court prosecutors successfully compelled production of the passphrase protecting the defendant's PGP key. In this case, however, the key was not sought for the purpose of acquiring evidence for conviction, but rather to determine whether the defendant's computer should be released from police custody. He had already been convicted of annoying children and wanted his computer back. The police argued it should not be released as Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 6 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:09:04 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.94.189.166 X-Complaints-To: abuse@eutelia.it X-Trace: news.edisontel.com 1143619366 62.94.189.166 (Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:02:46 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:02:46 MET DST Organization: Eutelia SpA Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.actress:310 japan.fishing.fly:103 In People v. Price in Yolo County, California Superior Court prosecutors successfully compelled production of the passphrase protecting the defendant's PGP key. In this case, however, the key was not sought for the purpose of acquiring evidence for conviction, but rather to determine whether the defendant's computer should be released from police custody. He had already been convicted of annoying children and wanted his computer back. The police argued it should not be released as