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Constitutional showdown voided: Feds decrypt laptop without defendant’s help
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-03-01 01:50
Colorado federal authorities have decrypted a laptop seized from a bank-fraud defendant, mooting a judge’s order that the defendant unlock the hard drive so the government could use its contents as evidence against her.
The development ends a contentious legal showdown over whether forcing a defendant to decrypt a laptop is a breach of the Fifth Amendment right against compelled self incrimination.
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Feds urge court to reject laptop encryption appeal
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-02-20 02:33
The government is urging a federal appeals court not to entertain an appeal from a bank-fraud defendant who has been ordered to decrypt her laptop so its contents can be used in her criminal case.
Colorado federal authorities seized the encrypted Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with valid court warrants while investigating alleged mortgage fraud, and demanded she decrypt it.
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Mozilla will ask all certificate authorities to revoke SSL-spying certificates
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-02-15 09:46
Mozilla plans to ask all certificate authorities to review their subordinate CA certificates and revoke those that could be used by companies to inspect SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)-encrypted traffic for domain names they don't control.
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Crypto experts analyze millions of X.509 certificates, call RSA crypto flawed
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-02-15 09:42
Cryptography researchers collected millions of X.509 public-key certificates that are publicly available over the web and found what they say is a shockingly high frequency of duplicate RSA-moduli keys.
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Fraudster ordered to decrypt laptop says she forgot the password
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-02-07 08:26
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.
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