The privacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation is currently defending a Colorado woman accused of a mortgage scam. In the US, lawyers have argued that forcing someone to hand over their encryption keys violates the Fifth Amendment right to protection from self-incrimination. In 2009 a UK citizen was jailed for nine months after r efusing to hand over the keys to decode his encrypted files. The disclosure of keys to encrypted files is an increasingly important, and controversial, tool used by law enforcement agencies around the world. Once they have the private keys, they would be able to transfer the Bitcoins and I imagine that they would transfer them to a Bitcoin address that only they control." "They could either get that with his cooperation or if he had stored it somewhere now accessible to the authorities.
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(Think of it essentially like getting the password to an account.)," Brito wrote on his blog. "Basically they would have to get the private keys to the suspect's Bitcoin addresses. The agency could have accessed those passwords with or without Ulbricht's cooperation, said Jerry Brito, director of George Mason University's Technology Police Program. Jon Matonis, executive director of the lobby group the Bitcoin Foundation, said that in order for the authorities to "seize" Silk Road's Bitcoins, it would need access to either its servers and/or to the passwords that protected those Bitcoins.
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