New UK crypto law and an idea on how to defeat it

[Brian Galbraith]

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On 01-Dec-99 Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
>> My personal view is that such a bill may not happen. But if it does, it
>> will
>> be mainly used for Organised Crime and Pedophile and not against the
>> average person on the street.

I live in the UK, and have spoken to a few police officers about this. I
have been told that the use of encryption leads to suspicion of these very
things. I have also been told that if I had nothing to hide, I would have
no interest in encryption.


> 
>  The only way to defeat such a bill, should it happen, would be to
>  propagate widespread public use of crypto. Now, let them try to
>  lock up one millon. Or five million.

Exactly.

Brian

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Date: 01-Dec-99
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