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> But torturing someone is stupid and doesn't work,

I'm pretty sure if someone waterboarded me to get my phone password I would eventually lose the mental will necessary to keep getting waterboarded and give up the password. But I'm just one point of data.

However, torturing me for information I don't have... now that's stupid and won't work.

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What if revealing that information would ensure your permanent imprisonment and the immediate death of your family and friends? Because this is almost always the case. Interrogators are not trying to find things out because they are curious, they are looking for your allies in order to kill them or capture and torture them.

If you had something on your phone that you would die for, would that change the equation at all?

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