Boris Johnson’s Covid WhatsApps: ex-PM ‘can’t remember iPhone password’
Boris Johnson’s Covid WhatsApps: ex-PM ‘can’t remember iPhone password’
Boris Johnson has been unable to give WhatsApp messages from his old mobile phone to the Covid inquiry because he cannot remember the passcode, The Times has be
To be fair that's exactly what everyone should say when someone asks to look at your personal info!
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?
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.
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.
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?
It is being held at a solicitors. He does not have access to it without. If he requests access, then it will be recorded.
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.
Which in it self is an offence. https://www.saunders.co.uk/news/prosecuted-for-your-password/
Not that I agree with this law, but it should be applied to our ex PM who brought in similar laws
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.
Forget the forensics guys, if he keeps this up they'll be prepping the rubber hose and dentistry tools guys.
Perhaps we could skip the forensics?
Phones are well encrypted, they need the password
No, you can crack them with the right forensic tools, it just costs. I imagine of they tell BoJo they can unlock his phone but they'll charge him £50k to do it, he'll "find" his password tucked down the side of a mistress.
Non paywall version here :
nice! thanks for this.
And as we all know, we can trust what he says
That photo of Boris is great. No really a ladies' man... more like my Nan.
isn't that a bit mean on your nan?
His nan is Margaret Thatcher.
He's such a slippery, floppy haired git. The pins probably his mistress of the times measurements
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.