Peter Fairbrother wrote:
The UK Home Office have just announced that they intend to bring the
provisions of Pt 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
into force on 1st October. This is the law that enables Policemen to
demand keys to encrypted material, on pain of imprisonment,
The UK Home Office have just announced that they intend to bring the
provisions of Pt 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
into force on 1st October. This is the law that enables Policemen to
demand keys to encrypted material, on pain of imprisonment, and without
judicial
* Peter Fairbrother:
I forgot to mention that Pt.3 also includes coercive demands for
access keys - so for instance if Mr Bill Gates came to the UK, and if
there was some existing question about Microsoft's behaviour in some
perhaps current EU legal matter, Mr Gates could be required to give
