Yeah, I don't remember all of my passwords either. And I usually have the most trouble remembering my most important passwords, since the number of times I use a password is pretty much inversely correlated to the importance of the data it protects. So the idea that I could be jailed for not admitting something that I no longer had knowledge of is somewhat scary.
How about the password for what ever is currently the most important thing in your life? Or not even most important, do you remember your cash-card PIN?
Terrorists planning the London bombings, for example, are unlikely to have forgotten their password. They've memorised the whole Koran (on the whole) remembering the access code to the details of the single most important defining action in their entire lives is unlikely.
Still possible, but I don't think your story is relevant.
My comment was in response to someone saying that they had lots of old passwords they'd forgotten - the point was that this law is not being used to get access to your old ASCII porn collection on your 386 in the closet.
The mention of the Koran was saying that one of the disciplines muslims strive for is reciting the whole Koran, quite a feat of memory IMO. A well motivated person, who has probably mastered this memory task is unlikely, I contend, to forget an encryption key (password) that is part of what will be the defining moment of their life.
Personally I fancy my chances of being hit by a meteorite as higher than those of being obliged to hand over my passwords under this law.
