Fraudster ordered to decrypt laptop says she forgot the password
Ramona Fricosu, the woman ordered by a court to decrypt the contents of her laptop until February 21, revealed through the voice of her lawyer that she might have forgotten the password to the encrypted drive.
According to Wired, the defendant hasn’t taken this position in court, but her attorney states that people forget their passwords all the time, especially since in this case, the encryption wasn’t set up by Fricosu herself.
If she does decide to take this approach, Judge Blackburn will have to make a call and determine if she really did forget the password, or if she is just refusing to comply with the court’s demands. In the latter case, she could be held in contempt and jailed. “The government will probably say you need to put her in jail until she breaks down and does what she is ordered to do,” Philip Dubois, Fricosu’s attorney said.
