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Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback Try true crypt, cipher your data into the protected partition, then protect that with meaningless junk in the public partition, when asked for the decryption keys you just give them the publicly available junk decryptor and they see nothing is...
[August 18, 2006, 13:52]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback I hope that Campbell and his kind never have their loved ones killed by a terrorist becuse they were able to retain the keys. The whole question of encryption needs rethinking. If data is so vital then the owners should physically protect it as...
[August 16, 2006, 14:02]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback Actually, if the forensics folks are already looking at a suspicious computer, it is far easier to find hidden files then to decrypt them if properly encrypted. So, if the cops know that there is something on my computer that they are interested...
[August 18, 2006, 6:34]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback Some might think that the police would have enough resources. I would advise to be far more interested in the communications eminating from that computer then the actual files on that computer. Reason being that there's no way of knowing what kind...
[August 20, 2006, 21:47]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback Some might think that the police would have enough resources. If they have broken it, they have not revealed this to any police agency, much less the techniques for doing this. It is widely believed, within the cryptographic community, that — if...
[August 21, 2006, 17:14]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback So we are to believe that terrorists, paedophiles and burglars are computer savvy enough to encrypt their data to such extend that it can't be decrypted by one of the zillions of freely downloadable decrypt programs available on the Internet...
[August 16, 2006, 23:20]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback All they have to do is talk to matey boy gates you he of the mint sauce flavoured OS windBloZe ask him to build them a back door and bing a large part of the computers in the world wide ass open !
[August 16, 2006, 17:31]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback Perhaps he should remember that the primary duty of police is to PREVENT crime - in this context to eliminate the paedophilia from the internet, which would in turn prevent its' downloading onto computers and the criminilisation of the downloaders.
[August 16, 2006, 14:38]
Government To Force Handover Of Encryption Keys
News The UK Government is preparing to give the police the authority to force organisations and individuals to disclose encryption keys, a move which has outraged some security and civil rights experts. Part 3 of RIPA gives the police powers to order...
[May 18, 2006, 12:10]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback The police want powers seize encryption keys; why give them just powers to seize encryption keys only; why not give them powers to sleep with our wives as well and also allow them to tap our phones and allow the police to be our one and only ISP...
[August 16, 2006, 12:07]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
News The fact that law-enforcement officers don't have the powers to seize encryption keys means an increasing number of criminals are able to evade justice, a senior police officer warned on Monday. Clayton also argued that businesses may take their...
[August 15, 2006, 11:05]
Police Ask For More Internet Powers
News While the police admitted that the time it takes to break some encryption standards has slowed investigations, moves to stop people hiding encryption keys have already been included in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
[July 26, 2005, 8:55]
Encryption Key Legal Challenge?
Blog The power of the police to force people to hand over encryption keys may be possible to challenge under human rights law, according to an article on OUT-LAW.com. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was changed last autumn to allow...
[January 25, 2008, 17:08]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback So that means that on nothing else but a police assumption (like file names) people are expected to hand over their private keys (never mind if a virus eaten it or people simply forgot under the stress of getting arrested and such) or face serious...
[August 26, 2006, 23:01]
Cyber-snooping Bill Through House Of Commons
News The police would be given rights to demand proof that such keys are unobtainable. The Bill will give law enforcers access to the 'keys' needed to decode encrypted email messages. As well as concerns over human rights issues, it has also been...
[May 9, 2000, 17:03]
New Surveillance Bill Comes Under Fire
News The most controversial aspect of the bill is the recommendation that law enforcers be given legal power to confiscate keys required to decrypt encrypted computer communications, a provision that also existed in the DTI's E-Commerce Bill.
[February 10, 2000, 16:27]
RIP Bill Nearly Law, Critics Say More Changes Needed
News A further amendment made it incumbent on the police to inform a senior judge before they can capture encryption keys. But despite a victory for its critics on at least two counts, the RIP Bill held one of its most controversial aspects: that which...
[July 20, 2000, 10:02]
A Year Ago: Cybersnooping Bill Through House Of Commons
News The police would be given rights to demand proof that such keys are unobtainable. The Bill will give law enforcers access to the 'keys' needed to decode encrypted email messages. As well as concerns over human rights issues, it has also been...
[May 9, 2001, 6:03]
Surveillance: Government Plans E-surveillance - Part 2
News Under the e-commerce bill, which is currently under consultation, Police will have the right to demand decryption keys be handed over if they suspect a crime has been committed. He argues that anyone with a grudge could send an incriminating...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Government To Force Handover Of Encryption Keys
Talkback The other question is whether the police officers are qualified to handle the keys themselves? Here is a hard drive filled with all of the keys I use. What prevents people from just generating thousands upon thousands of keys?
[May 19, 2006, 22:33]
