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Re: British Legislation to Compel Encryption Key Disclosure
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:37:00 -0400
On Thu, 18 May 2006 11:25:42 PDT, Blue Boar said:
Gregory Hicks wrote:Me too, but in certain jursdictions in the US, merely having the software installed is a clear sign of "guilt" for whatever the TLAs want to prove guilt for. Doesn't matter if you have a key or not. Or if the software has been installed. All you need to have for "guilt" is to have the software on your machine.Which "software"? Every major OS has shipped with crypto software for years now.
A case in Georgia, the prosecutor tried to use "He had PGP on the disk, he must have been up to no good". Fairly scary.
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- Re: British Legislation to Compel Encryption Key Disclosure Valdis . Kletnieks (May 18)
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- Re: British Legislation to Compel Encryption Key Disclosure Blue Boar (May 18)
- Re: British Legislation to Compel Encryption Key Disclosure Brian Loe (May 18)
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