Sunday 30 November 2008

More thoughts on Damian Green

What would the police have done if when they looked at his computers they discovered that every hard disk was encrypted using something like SafeBoot or one of the multitude of free encryption packages? How would they force the password out of an MP?

Update

Of course under the draconian RIPA III there is a mechanism in place to force someone to hand of the encryption keys but would the police be so stupid as to use RIPA against an MP? Anyway software such as TrueCrypt as the concept of "Plausible Deniablity" where the fact that encrypted data is even present is very difficult to prove.

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