On: Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt ha...

[69mlgsniperdad]

What would happen if he lobotomized(carefully and mildly) himself, and legitimately could not remember his encryption keys/pw nor the reason he performed lobotomy?

[dang → 69mlgsniperdad]

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[jacobush → 69mlgsniperdad]

Or very carefully shot himself in the heart?

[pc86 → jacobush]

Surely this layman knows enough about the brain to know how to lobotomize himself such that he forgets his passwords, but not such that he forgets how to perform a self-lobotomy!

[jacquesm → pc86]

That's easy, just snip the blue neurons. Or was it the red ones? No, definitely blue. (Snips red neuron.)

[dang → 69mlgsniperdad]

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[roywiggins → 69mlgsniperdad]

The Zaphod Beeblebrox strategy!