Re: British Legislation to Compel Encryption Key Disclosure

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

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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