By providing the password, he also acknowledges the hard drives/computers are his. There could be nothing on them and they could charge him with theft of the dr

By providing the password, he also acknowledges the hard drives/computers are his. There could be nothing on them and they could charge him with theft of the drives, with proof being that he provided the password to them. However audacious it is to deny (or not admit) ownership of something so obviously in his possession, it is his right.