PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case

waytoomuchcoffee writes "A Minnesota appeals unamimously ruled in a child porn case that "the existence of an encryption program" on the defendants computer could be admitted as evidence of criminal intent. The article doesn't mention if this can be taken into account for sentencing too."

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Re:huh?

[Cryptnotic]

What? People talking out of their asses on the internet? People just making up stuff and trying to sound authoritative? Pfft! That would never happen on a prestigious website like Slashdot.

Seriously though, I agree with you that it is neither healthy nor wise to base one's legal decisions based on anything written on Slashdot. For example, if you were thinking of starting a business selling high-speed bittorrent access, I wouldn't suggest going ahead with it just because "some guy on slashdot" said that it was probably legal.