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by LeoPanthera 4283 days ago
> One cannot be similarly physically compelled to disclose a code only held in his or her memory.

You can in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...

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It's amazing how hard it can be to remember a password that one has not typed in a long time, and has been subjected to solitary confinement.

"Grassian and Haney show that a cluster of different symptoms, which they refer to as SHU syndrome, occurred in something like 90 percent of the prisoners they studied. Included symptoms can be affective, like paranoia and depression; cognitive, like confusion, memory loss, perceptual distortions, hallucinations; or even physical, like headaches and insomnia. So there is documented, psychiatric evidence that even a comparatively short term in solitary confinement can have negative consequences" (source http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/solitary-confinement-is-a-leg...)