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Subject: Man jailed over computer password refusal
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/10 at 8:52 am
A teenager has been jailed for 16 weeks after he refused to give police the password to his computer.
Oliver Drage, 19, of Liverpool, was arrested in May 2009 by police tackling child sexual exploitation.
Police seized his computer but could not access material on it as it had a 50-character encryption password.
Drage was convicted of failing to disclose an encryption key in September. He was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Monday.
Drage was arrested when he was living in Freckleton, Lancashire, but later moved to Liverpool.
He was formally asked to disclose his password but failed to do so, which is an offence under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, police said.
Officers are still trying to crack the code on the computer to examine its contents.
Det Sgt Neil Fowler, of Lancashire police, said: "Drage was previously of good character so the immediate custodial sentence handed down by the judge in this case shows just how seriously the courts take this kind of offence.
"Computer systems are constantly advancing and the legislation used here was specifically brought in to deal with those who are using the internet to commit crime.
"It sends a robust message out to those intent on trying to mask their online criminal activities that they will be taken before the courts with the ultimate sanction, as in this case, being a custodial sentence."
Subject: Re: Man jailed over computer password refusal
Written By: LyricBoy on 10/09/10 at 9:34 am
They oughtta ask the British intelligence authorities to decrypt the disk. They'd make fast work of it.
Subject: Re: Man jailed over computer password refusal
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/10 at 9:38 am
They oughtta ask the British intelligence authorities to decrypt the disk. They'd make fast work of it.
Just reform Bletchley Park?
Subject: Re: Man jailed over computer password refusal
Written By: Foo Bar on 10/09/10 at 7:02 pm
They oughtta ask the British intelligence authorities to decrypt the disk. They'd make fast work of it.
Crypto's actually pretty good these days. Not that it matters. In the UK, it's actually against the law to forget your key. In the US, you get a keylogger planted on your machine, and only if your crime is really egregious do you get the key tortured out of you.
Which reminds me that for every thread, there exists at least one xkcd:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png
As good as crypto is these days, rubber hose cryptography trumps all.
Subject: Re: Man jailed over computer password refusal
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 10/10/10 at 12:58 am
I'd send in Harry Callahan!
Subject: Re: Man jailed over computer password refusal
Written By: danootaandme on 10/10/10 at 5:54 am
I'd send in Harry Callahan!
http://clinteastwood-tribute.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/dirty-harry-big.bmp
I know what you're thinking. "Did it have five letters and one number or 4 letters and 2 numbers?" But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I remember" Well do you,punk?