Police to Imprison People Who Forget Their Passwords.

[Cowboy Bob]

Having done a bit of sysadmin work briefly, it's my view that anyone who does forget their password should be put away

[xoggoth]

"We have to balance the right to private life with the right to private life of victims and the right to life of victims," he said.

But as we saw in the recent paedophile cases of people fabricating their own images, there may not be any victims.

[AtW]

They already had such powers for a long time, think almost 10 years - basically anyone who won't provide password to decrypt data can go to jail, though I did not have about convictions - think now they will use it in respect of terrorist cases where there is already heavy suspicion on the person and encrypted data can be counted against you.

[Paddy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4794383.stm

The government faces criticism over plans to give police powers to make suspects produce readable copies of encrypted computer evidence...