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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:
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