Comment Re:Passwords (Score 1) 438
It was my understanding that a combination to a safe (unlike the physical KEY to a safe) *was* testimonial, as it's from one's head. In "In re Grand Jury Subpoena to Sebastien Boucher" the US District Court for Vermont ruled (IANAL, so please excuse my non-legal interpretation here) that only because the government had already seen the incriminating evidence on the defendant's laptop was the request for the same material upheld, though the password itself was not required to be turned over, only the unencrypted files on the drive, as those were the files that government agents had already seen. While I know you can't simply take other information from legal rulings as precedent, it sure sounds like if some lowly citizen merely *told* the agents they saw child porn on the drive, but the government hadn't verified this at all, they would've allowed to quash.
There haven't been any cases setting precedent that *I* know of, but it sounds like that in the US passwords are still testimonial.