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If you encrypt your device, and dirty cops like these decide they want in, they'll just toss you in the slammer and forget about you until you either cough up the password or die of dehydration. Either way works for them.
Similarly when you cross a border... you don't have to give them you password, but they can just keep you for a few days. Also note:
https://esfandilawfirm.com/can-police-unlock-your-phone/
They can also kill you where you stand with total impunity, so I'm not sure I see how these limitations of their supposed rights are at all meaningful.
Law enforcement routinely makes demands that are intentionally impossible to comply with, such as the deadly game of Simon Says that was played by the officers who murdered Daniel Shaver.
It's like a cat playing with its prey. The prey is not intended to survive.
No I won't give the password
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png
Make the authentication a biological indicator of consensual, free, unhindered existence.
“Sorry officers I literally can’t unlock this computer while I’m in your custody. Unless you can find a way to make me want to be here, that is”
“Well then we’ll just torture you”
“Nope, as you can see pain I experience burns this fuse here. Once the fuse is consumed, data begins to progressively degrade”