Declan forwarded:
> 3:00 a.m. 16.Feb.2000 PST
> DUBLIN, Ireland -- Britain is likely to
> become the first country in the world to
> make imprisonment a possible
> consequence of refusing to surrender, or
> even losing, one's private encryption
> keys.
You know, it would be most unfortunate if some anonymous swine generated PGP
Keys or even S/MINE keys for all the ministers, MPs, major administrators
and sub officials in Britain and submitted them to various key servers.
Luckily, that would take a great deal of effort and script writing talent.
I'm sure no swine on this list would be so inclined or possess the requisite
talent.
It would further be unfortunate if, after or during some public scandal
involving one of said officials, this same swine were to send said official
several anonymous emails encrypted to the offending key.
Certainly, if such emails had subject headers reading "Payments to Zurich
account" or "details of investigation" someone might get the wrong idea.
Wouldn't it just be terrible if this entire matter were then forwarded
anonymously to the investigating authorities?
