Man jailed over computer password refusal

[Cudni]

from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831
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A teenager has been jailed for 16 weeks after he refused to give police the password to his computer.
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whatever it was not sure it is worth 16 week in jail

[Hoov]

Now that is a password. And I thought I was crazy for having a 20 character password.

[Mister2]

Now that is a password. And I thought I was crazy for having a 20 character password.

We thought so, too! 

Wonder if they thought to slave the drive to another computer?

[Hoov]

With a 50 character password, I am sure that either the entire drive, or at least the interesting stuff, is all encrypted.

[K27]

I suspect whatever it is that is encrypted is worth a lot more than 4 months in prison.