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Re: Idaho Killer Holds Encryption Key to Laptop Mystery


From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:19:29 -0500

On 10/20/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

The problem is that it doesn't work out that way.  As one of the comments
to the article I cited says:

  "The TTB hypothetical assumes that the suspect has information sufficient to
  defuse the bomb, and that she will provide that information when tortured. It
  is at least as probable that a guilty suspect will, instead, provide false
  information intended (a) to stop the torture for the time being and (b) to send
  the torturers on a wild-goose chase long enough to allow the bomb to explode.
  The calculus looks something like this:

Its not a matter of how long you're going to live but how long its
going to take for you to die.
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