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Man imprisoned for not giving police password.
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Not derailed anything, still talking about the subject matter. Not my fault if people want to turn it into a personal debate
Doesn't matter you either have to prove you have forgotten it or get found guilty.
And i don't know a way you can prove you've forgotten it.
This is why laws shouldn't be pushed through in a matter of hours by people who don't know what it's about.
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He's just scared the police will judge him for playing World of Warcraft.
I presume a lie detector could help? Although people have been known to beable to cheat those things
I presume a lie detector could help? Although people have been known to beable to cheat those things
And lie detector evidence is not admissible in court.
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Then he'd be chargeable?
surely not if that's not what they were looking for in the first place?? the warrant was for child porn??
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haha, great example!!!
..but surely the PC would just be sent to someone to bypass the password?
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So what, you think they'd just turn a blind eye? Of course it's chargeable!
No different to pulling someone over for drink driving and finding a stash of coke and weapons in the boot, or any other example you care to think of.
Then he'd be chargeable?
If so, then that would be reason enough for me not to give the password. Especially given how harsh they treat such things.
so if you dont like someone, creap into their house, encrypt their PC, ANON call to the police about kid porn and they are in prison for ? 2 years is it?
It's not an issue. If police raid a known drug dealer's house and consequently find offensive weapons then the dealer can be charged for that and whatever else.
You could do that and the victim would have a very hard time proving it wasn't them. I imagine police take into account computer competency when it comes to these things though.
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It nearly happened to that teacher whereby a colleague planted abuse images on his PC and then called the cops. The only reason he got caught and the innocent man let free was because the guilty party told a couple of people what he did and they told the police. If he had not said anything then a totally innocent man would be in prison and branded a monster.
That's my gripe with any kind of tech crime involving computers. The general public (and IMHO police and courts) see computer evidence as infallible and definitive when, sometimes, this is not the case and innocent people can be prosecuted....
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That's the main problem here. You are forced to give up a password at risk of incriminating yourself in relation to a crime that isn't yet on the table.
Hence why someone mentioned the American's 5th Amendment before. We have the right to remain silent, but it's not really the same thing.
50 charcater encrption pass ^^ that guy is crazy
Yeah because most encryption systems used a fixed length password hash anyhow - so theres generally a number of different strings that will unlock the content not just that 1 password and they are all probably shorter than 50 characters - unless the system is generating very long key hashes.
very backwards !
http://www.examiner.com/sex-relatio...ndicates-man-accused-of-child-porn-possession
that guy could have got 20 years in jail if the famous pornstar in his vids hadnt backed him up.