Posts Tagged ‘passwords’

Man Jailed for Refusing to Give Up Password

7, Oct 2010

A 19 year old in Lancashire has been sentenced to 12 weeks in a young offenders’ institute for refusing to hand over a password to an encrypted file. The man, who was arrested as part of an investigation into indecent images of children, refused to hand over his 50 character encryption password – meaning that [...]

Are Your Online Passwords Safe Enough?

16, Aug 2010

A number of news agencies, including the BBC are reporting that millions of internet users may be using passwords that aren’t secure enough to keep out the next generation of hacking computer software. So, just in case some of our readers are struggling along with “password” acting as the key to their email, Twitter or [...]


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