This is the mess the legal system is in despite the shedloads of money spent on the national hi tech crime unit.
The right to remain silent has indeed been done away with.
A teenager was jailed yesterday for refusing to hand over his computer password to police during an investigation.
Fast-food worker Oliver Drage, 19, was taken to court after police tried to search his PC after a tip-off only to find it locked with a 50-character encrypted code.
Officers investigating a child exploitation racket ordered Drage to disclose the password hoping the contents of his computer might help their inquiries - but the teenager refused. He was then prosecuted for failing to disclose an encryption key.
This is an offence covered by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which came into force in 2007 to crack down on terrorists. He is the youngest person in Britain to be convicted of the charge.
Drage of Freckleton, near Blackpool, was sent to a young offender institution for 16 weeks. Police are still trying to decipher his password 17 months after they seized his computer.
Det Sgt Neil Fowler said: "Drage was previously of good character so the immediate custodial sentence handed down by the judge in this case shows just how seriously the courts take this kind of offence."
After being arrested in May 2009, Drage pleaded not guilty at Preston crown court but at a trial last month a jury took less than 15 minutes to convict him.
So a teenager in Blackpool can keep his (whatever) a secret for months but the US Military could not protect the CCTV images from their fleet of UAV mounted cameras.
I don't think the issue is that they can't, but in fact that they won't secure it. More stuff like this will keep happening until everyone understands the principle of data security, which is that it is almost impossible to guarantee as soon as you start sharing the data.