A Straw To Cling To

The fourth amendment grows weaker every day but the fifth still has life left in it. Over at the Daily Dot I discuss a federal judge's refusal to compel a child-porn suspect to decrypt his files, and remind everyone: the government needs actual evidence of wrongdoing before it can interfere with your life. Nowhere in the text of the U.S. Constitution does it say “All rights listed herein may be suspended, if cops suspect you did something really really bad.”