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It's not just the US. In the UK, you can go to jail for refusing to decrypt stuff.


That's terrifying. Big brother is really turning into an insecure Nazi these days, I wonder what he's doing that he's afraid of?


He was stopped by U.S. Customs and asked to decrypt the phone so they could inspect it. By refusing to decrypt his phone they could of possibly detained him on grounds of being a suspect.




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