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Are there any known cases of western police forces beating people with wrenches until they gave up passwords?
by austhrow743 7y ago
Are there any known cases of western police forces beating people with wrenches until they gave up passwords?
- jlg23 7y agoA few months in prison for not revealing the password can be unpleasant, too.
- claudiawerner 7y agoOr, under the RIPA act in the UK, a maximum of five years.
- SkyBelow 7y agoThat would be far too direct and brutal. Put them in prison until they talk and let the inmates know that they are refusing to decrypt their PC. The inmates will soon enough make their own assumptions why and do the beating themselves. Of course protective custody would be an option, but that is just even further isolation and mental torture.
- jandrese 7y agoI think waterboarding is more common. For US citizens they're usually stuck with just solitary confinement, which is a working form of torture but is kind of slow.
- anigbrowl 7y agoSure, read up on Northern Ireland.