No sapphire in it? Did you watch the video? The show it's 85% Aluminum oxide (sapphire) with a very thin layer of niobium on the interior to improve the refractive index. What the issue is here is the carbon impurities in the sapphire, not that there is no sapphire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court#United_States Actually, they can hold you until you provide what they want it seems. They held one man 14 years for contempt of court.

One counter to plausible deniability from their perspective could be this though: For instance with full disk encryption, they can look at your router/dhcp/etc logs and see that physical computer has been on the network. When you enter in your plausible deniability password you end up booting an OS that hasn't been booted in 4 months. I think they'll call bullshit.

Yes, but they would take an image of the drive before they let you do that. You would accomplish nothing but give them proof of obstruction of justice (attempting to destroy evidence).

Back when I was hourly, I got paid 2hrs for being on call for the weekend, plus any time spent working. Now that I'm salary, they can abuse me all weekend for free.

I'd like you to find a major website that comes anywhere close to passing that test before passing judgment. I tried ars, slashdot, yahoo, anandtech, and some others. All fail.