• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      21 days ago

      Yeah these are not excuses that fly with the british courts. You will still go to prison, and they might slap destruction of evidence or obstruction on top.

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        Lol. Nah. Feel free to provide some info on that if you wish. Law can’t get what they don’t know I don’t know. If I would be in the position of facing that, I would just give them my duress password. Not even a fancy NSA computer and 1000 techies wouldn’t be able to prove that it was a duress password, let alone recover anything

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          They can and will send you to prison if they ask you for the passwords to a machine and you claim to have forgotten it. This will be determined by a jury though and how they react to that is going to be different depending on whether we’re talking about a phone you use every day or a machine that’s been sitting in your garage for 10 years. Prosecution will use your behaviour throughout the rest of the interactions you’ve had with them as a significant part of painting you as lying and concealing the password.

          “RIPA section 49” is key phrase you need if you want to look into this.

          https://www.oblaw.co.uk/being-served-with-a-s49-ripa-notice/