posted on Feb, 14 2008 @ 04:36 PM
Originally posted by neformore
In the UK the Regulation and Investigatory Powers Act (RIP for short) has a caveat that says refusal to release a password for an encrypted folder -
even if you have genuinely forgotten it is tantamount to an admission of guilt and you can be fined and imprisoned solely based on that refusal.
Well if that is the case then again, the owner would have to decide which crime he would rather defend themselves of if he's really not forgetting as
the law implys, otherwise forgetting has become a crime. Wrong thoughts or loss of ones thoughts have become a crime - the road is getting
dangerous.
I don't think that would fly in America. I work on computers at many places for my work and amazingly I remember hundreds of peoples passwords, but
believe it or not having so many computers myself I have on occasion have forgotten my own password when trying to access an old system to retrieve
some old data.
Even though I can mirror the drive and recover files in other ways or just hack my own old OS and place a new password, there is always the
possibility that I can overprotect my data & then hit my head and forget how to retrieve it. I just don't think forgetting should be a crime
especially with Alzheimer's & such.
[edit on 14-2-2008 by verylowfrequency]