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From: wendyg@skeptic.demon.co.uk ("Wendy M. Grossman")
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Subject: Re: Fifth Amendment and Passwords 
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In article <1993Apr16.113151.7648@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz writes:

>In <C5Jzsz.Jzo@cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M Kadie) writes:
>
>looks like you can't be forced to reveal a password, if anyone can provide
>a convincing legal argument to the contrary (ie an actual court case) I'd
>be most interested...
>
This is the case in Britain, according to the head of the computer crime
unit here when I interviewed him a couple of months ago.

wg
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