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

[David SMITH]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:41:37AM -0500, the dragon wrote:
> 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.

So the people who come on gnupg-users asking for help because they've
forgotten their passphrase or accidentally deleted their ~/.gnupg
directory don't exist?

I guess that's a new way of replying to them: "You don't exist".

Not forgetting the possibility of malicious intentions - trying to frame
someone by putting encrypted data onto someone's computer and tipping
off the authorities.

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