Re:Man jailed over computer password refusal
by ck2 on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @02:56PM
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Yeah that's the border - slightly different, though they also set up border checks hundreds of miles "inland" around the country which makes their intentions suspect.
What I hate about all these cases is it comes down to child porn which makes it impossible to defend. Why can't it be something mundane that actually shows why this is a REALLY bad idea.
I just saw a scary university lecture on youtube on why you should NEVER talk to to the police, even to "explain things", even if you know you are 1000% not guilty of whatever they are after. So now it makes perfect sense to me that if they want to go trolling across your hard drive, they are doing exactly that - you are testifying against yourself for whatever charges they want to invent afterwards.
What I hate about all these cases is it comes down to child porn which makes it impossible to defend. Why can't it be something mundane that actually shows why this is a REALLY bad idea.
I just saw a scary university lecture on youtube on why you should NEVER talk to to the police, even to "explain things", even if you know you are 1000% not guilty of whatever they are after. So now it makes perfect sense to me that if they want to go trolling across your hard drive, they are doing exactly that - you are testifying against yourself for whatever charges they want to invent afterwards.