Oct. 12th, 2010

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A 19 year old refused to give up a 50 character password and is sentenced to 16 weeks in jail. He's being investigated for child exploitation. In England, you can't make the excuse "I don't remember it" without going to jail. It's not yet against the law in the US, but who knows how long that will last.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831

http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/10/05/2038219/British-Teen-Jailed-Over-Encryption-Password

And an XKCD cartoon showing the true value of disk encryption: http://xkcd.com/538/

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