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Since you can be compelled to turn over a physical key via due process, why can you not also be compelled to turn over a digital one?

I know this is rare, but in my opinion it's best to reason about the digital world by explicitly ignoring any analogies to the real world. Rep. Watt said during the SOPA committee hearings that we need parallels in the virtual world to the physical world. I couldn't disagree more.




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