Boris Johnson’s Covid WhatsApps: ex-PM ‘can’t remember iPhone password’

3 years ago by Mex to c/unitedkingdom

Boris Johnson has been unable to give WhatsApp messages from his old mobile phone to the Covid inquiry because he cannot remember the passcode, The Times has be
smeg 19 points 3 years ago
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mackwinston 9 points 3 years ago

The thing is if it were you or I being investigated, we'd have the RIP Act thrown at us with the threat of a custodial sentence, no doubt, for not revealing the password.

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Syldon 17 points 3 years ago path: 0 1219955, hotness: undefined, score: 17, children: 1
Mex 15 points 3 years ago

Not that I agree with this law, but it should be applied to our ex PM who brought in similar laws

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frazorth 16 points 3 years ago

What a twat. So what are the bets on how long it will be until they get proof that he has logged into his phone and this is all bollocks?

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HipPriest 4 points 3 years ago

12 hours, 24 hours something like that?

Then he'll say in public something like 'this is utter and absolute poppy piffle' and in private he'll say sorry and think up what his next line of sorry not sorry bs is going to be. It's what he's always done.

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Syldon 3 points 3 years ago

It is being held at a solicitors. He does not have access to it without. If he requests access, then it will be recorded.

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Delascas 14 points 3 years ago path: 0 1216299, hotness: undefined, score: 14, children: 1
Mex 5 points 3 years ago

nice! thanks for this.

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Emperor 14 points 3 years ago

It's definitely 00769.

I imagine "sorry I forgot my password" comes up a lot in police investigations, I imagine it wouldn't slow down the computer forensics team much.

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SNEWSLEYPIES 5 points 3 years ago

Forget the forensics guys, if he keeps this up they'll be prepping the rubber hose and dentistry tools guys.

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Emperor 8 points 3 years ago

Perhaps we could skip the forensics?

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Flax_vert -1 points 3 years ago

Phones are well encrypted, they need the password

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Emperor 2 points 3 years ago

No, you can crack them with the right forensic tools, it just costs. I imagine of they tell BoJo they can unlock his phone but they'll charge him £50k to do it, he'll "find" his password tucked down the side of a mistress.

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Flax_vert 1 point 3 years ago

Only if the phone hasn't been powered off or "locked-down"

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_xDEADBEEF 7 points 3 years ago

And as we all know, we can trust what he says

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tenebrisnox 7 points 3 years ago

That photo of Boris is great. No really a ladies' man... more like my Nan.

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Mex 5 points 3 years ago

isn't that a bit mean on your nan?

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ivanafterall 6 points 3 years ago

His nan is Margaret Thatcher.

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tenebrisnox 3 points 3 years ago

Blimey! I hope not. :)

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Bananakabooom 5 points 3 years ago

He's such a slippery, floppy haired git. The pins probably his mistress of the times measurements

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15liam20 2 points 3 years ago

I will save everyone a lot of time, it's 69420

The phone can be imaged then brute-forced, I imagine that this is more distraction. I'm not sure how but then I didn't really understand the whole cardboard bus thing.

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