>> Well I guess if they showed he had used it every day for the last 5 years
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>  Big Brother is watching? I'm not comfortable with where this is going...

If you've just been arrested (and had your PC taken away) on suspicion of 
downloading child porn (or whatever), then I think the police could quite 
easily get records of your activity online, they may have even been spying 
on you already.

It's then up to the jury what they think after all the facts have been 
presented.  It's not going to look good if you conveniently "forgot" the 
password to work your computer the day it was confiscated, but you managed 
to work it fine for the last few years.

Besides, the ISP will probably have records of what you did online, and I 
suspect some expert lab would be able to look at the PC and say how recently 
a lot of the data on the disc had changed (ie was the drive re-encrypted 
with a different key recently).

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