It is certainly real. A company I used to work with sued a former 
employee who refused to divulge a password and the employee was 
fined $800/day up to $8,000. Seems the judge just didn't buy that 
the woman had "forgotten" in less than a week a password that she'd 
been using every day for the last year.

She at first tried to claim that she'd recently changed it. It was 
pointed out that the company had backups over a year old, and that 
the company, once it cracked the password, could try the cracked 
passwords on the backups. Faced with perjury, she recanted.

Of course, this was enough years ago that the $250 "guaranteed 
crack" wasn't available. The economics have changed, certainly, but 
suing for lost productivity can still be a valid claim.



In article <bt1lul$il8$1@hercules.btinternet.com>,
 "Chris Leonard" <c.leonardNOSPAM@btinternet.com> wrote:

> And he says, "I forgot them, sorry"
> 
> What will you do now ? screw him in the courts for having a poor memory ?
> 
> Get real