Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police | Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court::undefined

  • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    I doubt that’s how the password is used for. More like they copy all contents of the phone and ask the password to go through encryption. The data is already there, accounts don’t matter.

    This is also the reason why it’s no good to have a dead man’s switch or the like, as in a certain password just wipes everything. You’d just get arrested for destroying evidence and they continue from a copy.

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, pretty much any first year police IT is going to make an exact copy of the phone first.