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Jailed for refusing to tell Police a password
On the front page of the Metro it says that a teenager has been jailed for refusing to reveal a password. Does anyone know the law for this? It's in Scoitland so maybe it's different. It seems to me that you should not be forced to reveal passwords, seems a lttle out of order to sling him in jail. Presumably it's on some sort of "obstruction" charge, any thoughts and opinions on this? Anyone have a detailed understanding of this area? thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If his password contains characters such as “!”, “;”, “^”, etc. and is 50 characters long, then a brute force dictionary attack will be useless. So we're left with a sequential solution.
For all those folks who watch Spooks and think that encrypted files can be decoded in a matter of hours or days - you are sadly mistaken. Even with a super-computer, it would take longer than the universe has been in existence to crack the password.
For all those folks who watch Spooks and think that encrypted files can be decoded in a matter of hours or days - you are sadly mistaken. Even with a super-computer, it would take longer than the universe has been in existence to crack the password.
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