Man imprisoned for not giving police password.
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Yes, but generally speaking that's purely for PC access control and it's basically useless.
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It isn't a BIOS level password.
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Best thing is... Have a 3 drive raid array!
Try to just look at one is pointless and the files will be ruined!!!!
Try to just look at one is pointless and the files will be ruined!!!!
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Its encrypted... Bios has nothing to do with it.
Eh? They have his entire pc.
Ah the old "he looks like he's guilty so he must be" what happened to evidence, innocent till proven guilty and stuff.
Personally I hope I don't accidently have a hard drive formatted with random characters lying around if someone falsely accuses me of being a pedo. pretty much the same thing.
Pedo or not. he's entitled to a fair trial.
I can't see why you wouldn't leave the curtains open in your house unless you've really got something to hide.
True, but that's getting a bit more advanced. Besides, you can use a duress password to limit what is seen, and they can't prove there are any other passwords that would reveal anything else. You can also hire xzibit as your IT consultant and put a truecrypt volume in your truecrypt volume so that you can decrypt while you decrypt, and I think it would be impossible to prove the existence of the second level volume.
They have enough evidence to sieze his PC, somit goes a bit beyond your standard "nothing to hide" discussion.
He's only just gone in. They've had his PC while he's been on trial.
lol, bs.
This will end two ways.
A)They will find out he had nothing but a large collection of porn/games/movies/mp3's, and will get fined and we will not actually hear any more.
B)Crammed full of child porn and it will be "We caught a pedo".
Maybe even a third option:
He is not a shop.
A)They will find out he had nothing but a large collection of porn/games/movies/mp3's, and will get fined and we will not actually hear any more.
B)Crammed full of child porn and it will be "We caught a pedo".
Maybe even a third option:
He is not a shop.
Do you understand the cryptography involved? You can't brute force it before the universe melts and there is nothing to 'reset'.
Laws mandating the handing over of passwords are no different to laws permitting warranted searches (which you can also be jailed for obstructing).
As long as there is reasonable grounds to request the password in the first place, I have no problem with this part of the law, and can't really see why anyone else would either.
As long as there is reasonable grounds to request the password in the first place, I have no problem with this part of the law, and can't really see why anyone else would either.
More likely he will serve his 16 weeks, get out with some sort of restriction on his owning and use of computers, then the police will poke around his PC a bit longer before giving up, and it'll end up in an evidence locker forever.
Yer I agree.
Then you just weigh up if the protected content is worth doing the time for and you can make a choice, more often that not it probably is.
I'm inclined to agree. He only real scope for abuse is if there is genuinely no encrypted volume, but they believe there is, or there is one but they think you're giving a duress key. They could press for your bein jailed on the belief that you have a key to dodgy stuff somewhere, though hopefully a judge would seek proof that such encrypted data existed in the first place.
So do you think drink drivers who refuse to give a breath sample should be let off scot free?