Teenager Jailed for 4 Months for Refusing to Tell Police His Password

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You're constantly warned to change passwords often, and to never reveal your passwords—but what happens when the police requests your computer password? If you've already been arrested for kiddyporn, it's a good idea to hand it over.

Refusing to tell police his 50-character long password has landed English 19-year-old Oliver Drage in prison, but as he was arrested last year for possessing images of underage sexual exploitation, he had more serious problems you could say.

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His sentence was handed down to him this past Monday, and he's now been carted off to a young person's institute to serve out the next 16 weeks in solitude. Police are reportedly still trying to guess his password. [BBC via The Register]