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   stefania maurizi (smaurizi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:48:15 JST stefania maurizi

   Today we at #FattoQuotidiano run an article on an unprecedented case:

   British journalist, #RichardMedhurst, could face years in prison for refusing to hand over his passwords to the police.

   [English, free from paywall]

   https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/

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     stefania maurizi (smaurizi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:49:34 JST stefania maurizi

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     The UK police have repeatedly tried to obtain the passwords to the phones of the British independent journalist, #RichardMedhurst

     He refuses because, like all reporters’ phones, they contain information that could identify his sources
     [English]

     https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/

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     stefania maurizi (smaurizi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:50:17 JST stefania maurizi

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     The UK police have repeatedly tried to obtain the passwords to the phones of the British independent journalist, #RichardMedhurst.

     He has refused because, like all reporters’ phones, they contain information that could identify his sources

     [English, free from paywall]

     https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/

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     stefania maurizi (smaurizi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:51:38 JST stefania maurizi

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     #RichardMedhurst's Google Pixel phone relied on a Graphene operating system, which is privacy-focused and considered particularly secure

     [English, free from paywall]

     https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/?s=09

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     stefania maurizi (smaurizi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:52:27 JST stefania maurizi

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     Steven Murdoch, professor of security engineering at #UCL, believes that, based on publicly available info as of last July, the police have no chance of extracting the information from the #Graphene operating system phone, using #Cellebrite

     [English, free from paywall]

     https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/

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     stefania maurizi (smaurizi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:53:08 JST stefania maurizi

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     prof. Steven Murdoch cites MSAB’s XRY software : “Less is publicly known about XRY so it is difficult to say whether it would have allowed the police to extract data”.

     [English, free from paywall]

     https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/

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     stefania maurizi (smaurizi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:54:00 JST stefania maurizi

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     The British authorities could also appeal to the court and get a judge to order the reporter to hand them over.

     If #RichardMedhurst fails to do so, he faces between two and five years in prison.
     [English]

     https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/

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     stefania maurizi (smaurizi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:55:23 JST stefania maurizi

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     #RSF's head of international campaigns, #RebeccaVincent:"We've tracked case of authorities forcing journalists to disclose passwords or otherwise interfering with their devices in every region of the world".

     However,this case is different: #RichardMedhurstcould risk prison

     [English, free from paywall]

     https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/

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     privacy_guru (privacy_guru@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 01:13:03 JST privacy_guru

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     @smaurizi This is simply insane. I wish him the best of luck dealing with this harassment.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 14:06:20 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @smaurizi Translation: Journalist threatened by state for doing journalism.
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 14:07:01 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @smaurizi I see the Ministry of Truth and The Ministry of Love are operating as designed.
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     Marcel 🛡 ♻ ✨ (marcellinusme@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 17:30:56 JST Marcel 🛡 ♻ ✨

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     @smaurizi Is this intimidation and violent threat taking place in a terrorist country like North Korea, Iran or Russia where basic human rights have no value? No, it's GB, in London!