Child abuse suspect won't be forced to decrypt hard drive

The Register reports an important ruling in a case about encrypted harddrives. The ruling by the Atlanta-based US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of an unnamed suspect from Florida goes against US legal thinking in previous cases where courts held a person ought to be obliged to turn over encryption codes or passwords in a criminal investigation. The ruling probably will hold to the Supreme Court but do not expect to end it there. In name of "think of the children" we are likely to see a prohibition of encrypting harddrives for personal use in the near future in the US.