Man jailed over computer password refusal - Polidicks

[QUOTE]A teenager has been jailed for 16 weeks after he refused to give police the password to his computer.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Police seized his computer but could not access material on it as it had a [b]50-character encryption password.[/b][/QUOTE] lol noobs. Source : [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831[/url]

[quote]Officers are still trying to crack the code on the computer to examine its contents.[/quote] Ok, try "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA". Nothing. Ok, try "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB" Nothing. God damn, cyber crime is so sinister.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;25287365]Ok, try "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA". Nothing. Ok, try "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB" Nothing. God damn, cyber crime is so sinister.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of portal

I would not give them my password either.

[QUOTE=kmlkmljkl;25287369]Reminds me of portal[/QUOTE] You're good at this reference thing, aren't you? I would have thought that was from Modern Warfare 2 because that's where all the good references come from.

A 2 week sentence would of been fine Not 4 fucking months :colbert:

50 characters? does it include ascii? I do envy that, my combined two master passwords are only 16 charcters, along with personal additions rather than random numbers and letters its about 20.... 24.... about half of what he has.

He must've had a lot of Linux distros on there...

I wonder how the hell he remembered it all. I guess if it was all in a sequence that meant something to him it wouldn't be a problem...

gonna encrypt my hard drive with AES256 they'll never find my ms paint pictures

He did well considering what the sentence would probably have been if they had gotten into his files. Truecrypt saves the day!

Whatever the fuck was on that computer, i need it. Also, fucking noob cops. Take the hard drive out and connect it to another computer. Voila, 10 mins and you have access...

[QUOTE=Superstormj;25287478]Whatever the fuck was on that computer, i need it. Also, fucking noob cops. Take the hard drive out and connect it to another computer. Voila, 10 mins and you have access...[/QUOTE] [quote]Oliver Drage, 19, of Liverpool, was arrested in May 2009 by police tackling child sexual exploitation.[/quote] :crossarms:

[QUOTE=Superstormj;25287478]Take the hard drive out and connect it to another computer. Voila, 10 mins and you have access...[/QUOTE] The drive was encrypted you donkey, probably TrueCrypt or something

[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png[/img] Doesn't matter if the encryption is secure. Not saying that the police can torture, but it doesn't mean that they can't get the password from you.

[QUOTE=watehfreak;25287852][IMG]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png[/IMG] Doesn't matter if the encryption is secure. Not saying that the police can torture, but it doesn't mean that they can't get the password from you.[/QUOTE] Doesn't TrueCrypt have a false password thing where you could put in a different password and instead of your files showing up it's something completely different?

[QUOTE=elitehakor v2;25287886]Doesn't TrueCrypt have a false password thing where you could put in a different password and instead of your files showing up it's something completely different?[/QUOTE] You've got a point there. But in other cases where the protection isn't secure to THAT extent, IMO it does save time rather than trying to crack it.

[QUOTE=Superstormj;25287478]Whatever the fuck was on that computer, i need it. Also, fucking noob cops. [b]Take the hard drive out and connect it to another computer. Voila, 10 mins and you have access...[/b][/QUOTE] [img]http://img.chan4chan.com/img/2009-04-24/1240539866791.jpg[/img] It would still be crypted.

Wasn't there a website that calculated how long it would take a super computer to crack your password? I remember 15 character passwords would take years or something to crack but 50 characters? good fucking luck.

[QUOTE=Lexinator;25287406]A 2 week sentence would of been fine Not 4 fucking months :colbert:[/QUOTE] I think he has something to hide that will let that 4 months look like a joke.

[QUOTE=kmlkmljkl;25287369]Reminds me of portal[/QUOTE] It's an old joke

If they pull it out the crypt will be gone coz true crypt stores it in RAM.

[QUOTE=teeheeV2;25287972]If they pull it out the crypt will be gone coz true crypt stores it in RAM.[/QUOTE] Dunno how it's called but they can move your pc if needed, without turning it off.

2^256 = 1.15792089 × 10^77 AES-256 is about equivalent to a 50 char plaintext password. (A lot less, actually, as 62^50 = 4.16470721 × 10^89) Assuming you have a cluster of CUDA cards equivalent to 10,000 8800GTS cards, you could do 68,300,000 Keys/s of AES testing (most likely encryption scheme.) it would take 1.695 × 10^68 seconds; or 3.226 × 10^62 years, expanded this is: 322,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. So no, it can't be done, ever.

I'm slightly confused as to why he needs a 50 character password.

[QUOTE=Baldr;25287954]I think he has something to hide that will let that 4 months look like a joke.[/QUOTE] The guy is 19. the girl/ boy could be anything from 14-18 depending on the british laws. I call that either consentual sex or rape. If it's materials i call that pathetic teen syndrome. If the "victim" is 14 or less, it's disgusting. calling this boy a man is a severe mistake. You ask me, he may not be right to have whatever he has, but if the police can't get a hold of it themselves he fucking deserves his freedom. The polices job is to prove that you did it. it's not your job to do so. 4 months is just fine with what they've got so far. He played his cards right and is loose for now. Of course i hope he doesn't turn out to be some psychotic kid killer.

[QUOTE=Bomimo;25288120]The guy is 19. the girl/ boy could be anything from 14-18 depending on the british laws. I call that either consentual sex or rape. If it's materials i call that pathetic teen syndrome. If the "victim" is 14 or less, it's disgusting. calling this boy a man is a severe mistake. You ask me, he may not be right to have whatever he has, but if the police can't get a hold of it themselves he fucking deserves his freedom. The polices job is to prove that you did it. it's not your job to do so. 4 months is just fine with what they've got so far. He played his cards right and is loose for now. Of course i hope he doesn't turn out to be some psychotic kid killer.[/QUOTE] I believe it's similar to searching your house, they handed down a warrant, in the course of serving the warrant, they needed to search this kid's computer. In almost all countries, you are required to assist with facilitating the serving of the warrant, lest you face punishment similar to this man. He most likely got away with a much lighter sentence than he otherwise would if he complied fully with their investigation, providing he is guilty.

[QUOTE=ashzu;25287949]Wasn't there a website that calculated how long it would take a super computer to crack your password? I remember 15 character passwords would take years or something to crack but 50 characters? good fucking luck.[/QUOTE] Far more. My password is about 14 character's, pretty sure it was in the 400 [I]nonillion[/I] years range.

Kids got cp or warez. probably better that he didnt give them his password or else whatevers on there would get him in worse trouble

[QUOTE=Eluveitie;25288114]I'm slightly confused as to why he needs a 50 character password.[/QUOTE] [quote]Oliver Drage, 19, of Liverpool, was arrested in May 2009 by police tackling child sexual exploitation[/quote] Put 2 and 2 together.