For Sale: I'm a Terrorist not a Photographer

2 for run of the mill refusal, 5 for turrurrurrist related refusal, no?

Not sure how it divides up, I think the maximum term is 10 years.

Pictures of kittins is not refusal to hand over keys, however.

If a file is found that is encrypted, the police are very likely to be curious, even if there is no suspicion of an offence having being committed, refusal to hand over the keys is likely to lead to a prison term.

So there need be no crime to start with.

Talking of kittens . . . http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/tiger_police/

. . . .for me this points to the unpleasant reality that surveillance is broadening it's reach, it's not great to know that police and local councils now have the power to (and now do) trawl forums and social networks like facebook looking for admissions of criminality (or intent), I think I said as far back as last year that an admission to something as smalltime as RLjumping or kicking a wing mirror off might not be a wise thing to post up on a forum anymore, no one is going to storm your place in the dead of night because you kicked a wing mirror off, but it won't surprise many to see FPNs or missives sent out solely on evidence gathered on forums/social networks.

One (albeit small) check and balance is that there has to be reasonable suspicion of an offence for a senior officer to require encryption keys to be handed over.

The Reg has something. I recall the fella's refusal as being a mix of principled stand, and outright nuttery.

Yeah found the Reg report . . . here's a link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/page4.html . . . poor nutter, should have been a health issue not a criminal issue.

[/gets tin hat on and goes down the pub]