British Teenager Jailed over Refusal to Reveal Computer Password

busenbust

busenbust

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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Brit...usal-to-Reveal-Computer-Password-159722.shtml
A 19-year-old teenager from Liverpool was sentenced on Monday to sixteen weeks in a correctional institution for young offenders after he failed to reveal a password protecting encrypted data.

Oliver Drage used to live in Freckleton, Lancashire, but after he was arrested in May 2009 on suspicion of child sexual exploitation, he moved to Liverpool.

According to the BBC, the police seized his computer, but certain data stored on it was encrypted with a 50-character password.

The teenager was officially asked to surrender the access code and when he failed, he was charged with offenses under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) of 2000.

Drage told the jury at Preston Crown Court that he forgot the password, but he was found guilty nevertheless, the Lancashire Evening Post reports.

"This was a deliberate flouting of a court order compounded by your continual denial of guilt," the judge is quoted as saying when handing out the sixteen-week sentence.
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vodkazvictim

vodkazvictim

Why save the world, when you can rule it?
greek3 said:
and you'll never have a job......
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Don't know much about Britain do you? Jail sentences of years are reduced to days because we have no prison space (despite the considerable money and employment that could be got from building new prisons) and nobody has a job.
These days in the UK crime pays; just look at the politicians and bankers.

Oh yeah, nearly forgot:
Yassas, ti kanete? Olla kalla?
 
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