Bare Necessities 2 by John David Harding

Author:John David Harding [Harding, John David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: UNKNOWN

Chapter L

Emit

The bright lights of the windowless square room burned into Emit's eyes. He shivered; he was cold and scared and the brash demands of the two policemen made him nervous.

They were confident; extolling a fierce, uncompromising demeanour through their battle-scarred faces and firm tone of voice. The arrest was quick; he cried and shouted as they took his computer from his bedroom, carrying out four boxes of hardware from his mother's house and past a line of gawping neighbours and journalists.

He had barely been made aware that the pictures he had taken when Claire had collapsed and which Lars had stolen, had made their way to the newspapers before the Police came to arrest him in a morning raid.

His mother was in tears and wailed at the coppers, demanding an explanation; she'd never heard of the Computer Misuse Act. He heard the loud mutterings from the neighbours with each person straining to get a better view of his life being carted away in the back of a Police van. They’d tittle-tattle, of course. The reasons of his arrest would be speculated upon, even after the truth was public knowledge.

Terrorist? Paedophile? Hacker? Stalker? Pirate? The truth was an irrelevance to the wheels of gossip.

Two hours later he was in the interview room; bereft of his mobile phone, belt and shoelaces, but it was only his phone that he objected to being parted from. He demanded it back, repeatedly, but the Police refused to return any of his confiscated possessions to him.

Indeed, the anger in his voice at the check-in desk was not unexpected; the two officers gave him ninety minutes in his cell for his emotions to cool before he was taken to an interview room.

He had declined the use of a solicitor. He didn't want it. “I don't want fucking legal advice. Just give me my fucking stuff back, you fucking thieves.” He continued to object angrily, and his vociferous shouts carried from his interview room.

The two specialist officers opened a Manila file on the table. “When we inspect your computer, what are we going to find?”

The leading question was deliberate; it was an attempt to give Emit a chance to incriminate himself. He shrugged.

“Ain’t gonna find nothin’ ‘cause it’s encrypted. And it’s using ECC encryption pushed through a …”

The Police Officer raised his eyebrows. “Then we will seek a court order to obtain the credentials from you. If you refuse then we can and will claim that we have a belief that you may have terrorist materials on your computer and seek a 25 year jail term.” Emit gulped.

“You can’t do that.”

“I can do that,” the officer lied. “I can do that and I will do that. I want to see the insides of your hard drive and I want it examined by my experts.”

The policewoman glanced at the file. “We’ve picked you up because we have reason to believe you have been illegally accessing computer accounts contrary to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and Communications Act 2003. The top end of the sentence you would be looking at is two years in prison.

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