Re: Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop - CNET News

[Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2009-03-20 Craig S Wright wrote:
> The intentional destruction of evidence is a crime.
>
> US law varies by state, but as an example, Australian federal law and  
> Victorian state law would make this a criminal act that would itself  
> be punished and also result in an instruction for the jury to treat  
> the now unaccessable evidence as holding definstive proof of what you  
> are being checked for in the first place.
>
> Your strategy makes you a criminal. It does not gain any benifit.

That depends on the country's legislation. German criminal law for
instance clearly states that you cannot be punished for destruction of
evidence that might lead to your own conviction. See § 258 (5) StGB [1].

[1] http://bundesrecht.juris.de/stgb/__258.html

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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