"I forgot the key." Done.
(Presumably serving an 18 month contempt sentence in a county jail is better than the 25-to-life in a maximum security federal prison you'd get if they saw the contents of your hard drive.)
(Presumably serving an 18 month contempt sentence in a county jail is better than the 25-to-life in a maximum security federal prison you'd get if they saw the contents of your hard drive.)
Either way, the longest contempt sentence ever was 14 years, which is nothing compared to what you'll get if the government convicts you of laundering money, selling drugs, possessing child porn, or all the other crimes that you might have documented on your computer.