• smeg@feddit.uk
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    To be fair that’s exactly what everyone should say when someone asks to look at your personal info!

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      True, but most people aren’t the former Prime Minister. I can’t read the article, because fuck paying any money to any of Murdoch’s outlets, but is it his personal phone, or one that was provided in his official capacity as PM?

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        I can’t either so I’ll have to speculate. I imagine it must be a personal phone, because a government-provided one should be accessible by their sysadmin so Johnson’s password wouldn’t be required. Despite his public act he’s not an idiot, so his personal phone probably will be encrypted, but I imagine the default iPhone encryption won’t be able to outlast the police’s resources if they really want to get in.

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          It’ll almost certainly be his personal phone. A recurring issue with the tory government has been that they use their personal phones for government business.

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      The thing is if it were you or I being investigated, we’d have the RIP Act thrown at us with the threat of a custodial sentence, no doubt, for not revealing the password.

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    What a twat. So what are the bets on how long it will be until they get proof that he has logged into his phone and this is all bollocks?

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      12 hours, 24 hours something like that?

      Then he’ll say in public something like ‘this is utter and absolute poppy piffle’ and in private he’ll say sorry and think up what his next line of sorry not sorry bs is going to be. It’s what he’s always done.

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      It is being held at a solicitors. He does not have access to it without. If he requests access, then it will be recorded.

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      Not that I agree with this law, but it should be applied to our ex PM who brought in similar laws

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        What you mean as in government asking for your password and you telling them you can’t give it up. OFC it applies. The problem is the impetus from government to enforce the law.

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          I meant as in it’s an inquiry not a criminal case, so wasn’t sure how much they could compel someone to release it. If the law is applicable though then yeah it’s not a good look for the government not to be seen to enforce it.

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            There does not need to be a criminal offence pending for a search warrant to be issued. There only needs to be evidence that a crime could have been committed. Select committees hold the same weight as a criminal court. There are some ancient laws that are reputed to give them sentencing powers. They now rely on courts to process any wrong doing. It is a similar to the authority of the crown. We know the king can do certain things, but he won’t because of the shit storm it would cause afterwards.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    It’s definitely 00769.

    I imagine “sorry I forgot my password” comes up a lot in police investigations, I imagine it wouldn’t slow down the computer forensics team much.

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    I will save everyone a lot of time, it’s 69420

    The phone can be imaged then brute-forced, I imagine that this is more distraction. I’m not sure how but then I didn’t really understand the whole cardboard bus thing.