Originally Posted by
gglave
What no one seems able to tell me is whether you are required by law to hand over your encryption password for your computer, i.e. if customs takes your computer and it has full-disk encryption, are you required by law to hand over the password so they can examine the computer? What happens if you say "I choose to not give you the password." Are you arrested and charged with an offence?
The girl inspecting me at that time told me to enter my password. I turned the screen from here and she said 'you leave it where it is'. I said my password is confidential and I turned the screen anyway - she let me do it. Technically it is against the law for her to require my password unless she has a court order.