more on Britain Tries to DOES Emulate the US

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Orpheus <tharg () gmx net>
Date: July 27, 2005 3:18:11 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] Britain Tries to DOES Emulate the US


Technically that's *not* illegal, because that part (3) of the RIP
{"Regulation of Investigatory Powers") law of 2000 was never activated
("commenced"). But the law is on the statute book and could be activated
with some parliamentary formalities. This is a good account of the  
details
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/archive/00000271/

It appears that they are seeking to raise the penalty for not  
complying with
a decryption order to produce a key (the power already in RIP but  
which not
activated) from 2 years imprisonment to "a *very* significant amount of
penalty" (Sir Ian Blair interview
http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports- 
storypage.jsp?i
d=425, 16m 50s into video at
http://edge.channel4.com/news/2005/07/week_4/26_blair.wmv)

Caspar Bowden
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From: Will Morton <will () memefeeder com>
Date: July 25, 2005 8:58:30 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: schneier () counterpane com
Subject: Re: [IP] Britain Tries to Emulate the US



     Hi Dave;

     I think it's worth mentioning that failing to hand over  
encryption keys
to the cops upon presentation of a warrant is already illegal in the UK,
with a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment.

     http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,334007,00.html

     Cheers

     Will


On 24 Jul 2005, at 22:29, David Farber wrote:



> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Bruce Schneier <schneier () counterpane com>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5245014-117079,00.html
>
> <snip>



> They also want to make it a criminal offence for suspects to refuse to
> cooperate in giving the police full access to computer files by
> refusing to disclose their encryption keys.
<snip>


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