[e-privacy] [mikepery at fscked.org: Speak of the Devil]

[Anonymous via Panta Rhei]

Subject: Speak of the Devil
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:03:02 -0500
Reply-To: or-talk at freehaven.net

British govt just started pushing for Part III of RIPA citing
terrorism and kiddie porn as major reasons to require people to
disclose encryption keys...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060518-6870.html

Seems we may have a strong ally on our side on this one. International
bankers might not want the local police requiring them to hand over
keys either, though they certainly have enough political influence to
stop investigations before they start I'm sure...

The UK Crypto thread that spawned this article is here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2006-May/080742.html

One can only hope that the Bill of Rights is enough to keep this
bullshit out of the US, but who knows.

-- 
Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
fscked.org evil labs