Not if you didn't have them prior to receiving the notice and can prove it.
e.g. after taking away your PC and realising it is encrypted they return with a notice. You then hand over token and say by the way I previously destroyed the data on it so I don't have the keys. You have met your legal obligations. There is no offence of 'suspecting a notice might be served and destroying the keys in advance of receipt' that I am aware of. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Page Sent: 14 May 2006 15:00 To: or-talk@freehaven.net Subject: Re: Some legal trouble with TOR in France On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 03:58:06PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:32:50PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > > Under the British "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act", they > > would simply confiscate the entire machine, demand any > > authentication tokens required to access it, and lock you up if you > > refused to surrender them. I believe similar laws exist in most EU > > jurisdictions now. > Tony's point was that you could arrange not to have the authentication > tokens anymore. You better hope they believe you when you say you > don't have it, though. Not having the authentication tokens counts as refusing to surrender them. Dave -- Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
