Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

[the dragon]

If you're in control of the computer the files reside on, and were in control of it when the files were created and last accessed, the chances that you *don't* know the key for the encryption is so slim as to be nonexistant.

 

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> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:30:01 +0100
> From: dave.smith at st.com
> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data
> 
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 06:59:55AM -0400, Charly Avital wrote:
> > Faramir wrote the following on 8/13/09 3:32 AM:
> > > Unfortunately, it is not unusual people forgets the passphrases used
> > > to protect files, or secret keys...
> > 
> > "Two people have been successfully prosecuted for *refusing* to provide
> > U.K......."
> 
> You are, of course, assuming that the reporting is correct in its
> implication that the defendants either admitted to having access to the
> keys, or that it has been proven that they do have the keys.
> 
> I remember a lot of discussion at the time that the RIP bill was being
> pushed through about the difficulty of proving that you don't have
> access to a particular piece of information.
> 
> The RIPA is a particularly nasty piece of legislation in this respect.
> 
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