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oyd Wood typed:
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
yo udont know about RIP then
if you visit the UK, and are asked to show any files on your computer,
you cannot claim you "cannot remember the key"
that wil lbe deemed evidence that you are witholding evidence and yo
ucan go to jail jus for that.,. i.e. our new crypto-fascist law takes
away the right to the presumption of innocence ratehr than guilt....
its like escrow only worse.
See http://www.stand.org.uk/
http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?back=2000/now0714.txt&line=18#l
The RIP bill's currently being debated.
see also
http://www.fipr.org/rip/
for the gory details...
L.
<L(_dot_)Wood(_at_)surrey(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
cheers
jon