Reply to post: Re: Confused

Feds dig up law from 1789 to demand Apple, Google decrypt smartphones, slabs

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Re: Confused

That's because there is a a lot of case law about safe makers and safe owners being forced to help open a safe for the police.

There is even more case law preventing courts demanding people admit what they meant by some writing's hidden meaning.

The feds are being careful to phrase this in terms of "it's just unlocking a safe" rather than George Washington being made to read all his private correspondence out to the British.

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