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Story: Government to force handover of encryption keys

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Posted by: A Hacker (Thursday 18 May 2006, 6:00 PM)

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More unenforcable laws. Just what we need. As encrypted data appears to be 'random' data how will they know what is encrypted or just junk?
Just to start things off here is a link to defeat the proposed law....
http://iq.org/~proff/rubberhose.org/

Quote "Rubberhose transparently and deniably encrypts disk data, minimising the effectiveness of warrants, coersive interrogations and other compulsive mechanims, such as U.K RIP legislation."

Enjoy

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