content: "If you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about in regards to government-surveillance overreach."  If the government has enough evidence of a crime to hold him until he decrypts the laptop, then they should have enough evidence to go to trial. Either try the man on the evidence you have on-hand, or admit you don't have a case without his assistance in incriminating himself and let him go. The government doesn't get to indefinitely hold somebody until they give them the evidence needed to convict them. This is a Court of Law we're talking about, not the Spanish Inquisition.