Police fail to hack paedos computer

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Man jailed over computer password refusal
Oliver Drage Oliver Drage was ordered to serve 16 weeks at a Young Offenders Institution on Monday

A teenager has been jailed for 16 weeks after he refused to give police the password to his computer.

Oliver Drage, 19, of Liverpool, was arrested in May 2009 by police tackling child sexual exploitation.

Police seized his computer but could not access material on it as it had a 50-character encryption password.

Drage was convicted of failing to disclose an encryption key in September. He was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Monday.

Drage, was arrested when he was living in Freckleton, Lancashire, but later moved to Liverpool.

He was formally asked to disclose his password but failed to do so, which is an offence under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, police said.

'Robust message'

Officers are still trying to crack the code on the computer to examine its contents.

Det Sgt Neil Fowler, of Lancashire police, said: "Drage was previously of good character so the immediate custodial sentence handed down by the judge in this case shows just how seriously the courts take this kind of offence.

"Computer systems are constantly advancing and the legislation used here was specifically brought in to deal with those who are using the internet to commit crime.

"It sends a robust message out to those intent on trying to mask their online criminal activities that they will be taken before the courts with the ultimate sanction, as in this case, being a custodial sentence."
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Get Damo on it.
 
Absolutely not.

I also keep encrypted files on my computer for security purposes and there is absolutely no way that I'd give my password out to anyone either.

The law is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Where exactly was that philosophy in the latest arrest?

I hope he sues them and wins big.
 
Damocles said:
Absolutely not.

I also keep encrypted files on my computer for security purposes and there is absolutely no way that I'd give my password out to anyone either.

The law is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Where exactly was that philosophy in the latest arrest?

I hope he sues them and wins big.
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I wasn't that interested in the human rights aspect of the case. I was more surprised that they couldn't crack his encryption code.
 
Cracking any proper, modern encryption code is a subject for movies and crime thrillers I'm afraid. Needless to say, something has to be very high on the priority list for it to be looked at by internet crimes or GCHQ; neither of which are particularly arsed about a guy who is being awkward as they have about a billion terrorist emails to worry about first.
 
A 50 word password , its obviously the full Alphabet forwards and then backwards minus his own personal initials ....fucking amateurs.
 
Lucas North said:
A 50 word password , its obviously the full Alphabet forwards and then backwards minus his own personal initials ....fucking amateurs.
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wouldn't that be 48 lucas? O_o
 
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