   Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Simple solution.... (Score
2) 228  by purple_cobra (#48310951) Attached to: New GCHQ Chief
Says Social Media Aids Terrorists Yeah, refusal to disclose
passwords is covered under the Regulation of Investigatory
Powers Act (or it was when I was in college, at least); I
suspect *that* law will be tweaked (i.e. to cover the same
imprisonment terms as the original offence for which you are
being investigated, so for murder that might well mean life for
not disclosing your password) but there needs to be a *very*
tight scope placed on that (i.e. if the police are searching for
terrorist propaganda and find a small amount of cannabis at your
house, the drug would be confiscated and destroyed but no
police/judicial action taken as a result beyond the confiscation
(not that I care what people do to themselves if they are
consenting adults)). Will that kind of thing happen? Of course
not. Laws are (effectively) created by the tabloid press and the
various muppets on Mumsnet et al,