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Comment by ethanbond

I mean... police can force you to open your door, your safe, or virtually any other container of secrets. The 5th Amendment doesn't give you broad protection to hide things from police when they have a warrant.

A phone is unique thing not because it contains so many secrets, but because you have to give testimony (as opposed to property, like a key) in order to open it, and it's impossible to open by bashing the door down or cutting it open. It's a technological coincidence, not a legal/philosophical doctrine, that makes phones secure against compulsion by law enforcement.

parent ethanbond 2 years ago

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