The government doesn't know how to decrypt the files, so the opinion that forcing the decryption is only telling the government what it already knows is asinine.

What is shocking is that 5 out of seven judges bought this line of BS.

I'd have been asking "If you already know what is there, why do you need it decrypted?"

The sad thing is that you are seeing the first government encroachments into your mind. This one seems to fly in the face of other similar cases in that it appears admitting the existence of the password screws you.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/identity/passwords-tangled-in-fifth-amendment/131

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/17/should_the_government_search_your_brain/

Baby steps to a frightening future, given the ongoing research in trying to map out the brain. I knew the fifth was basically dead the night I read this one prosecutor's opinion that forcible application of some magical mind-reading device would not constitute a violation of the fifth amendment because the fifth is rooted in free will and the machine would take that away.

The implications of that are simply awesome. Piss tests would seem quaint at that point.

...was the same as usual, he shouldn't have talked as much as he did. Just shut up and ask for a lawyer. No statements whatsoever.