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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Ah! How America leads the way. %)

[Danuvius]

Obviously this is nonsensical in the extreme.

Assuredly some sensible appeals will stop this ruling from being a usable precedent. A country's entire legal system cannot be demented enough not to.

Oh... and F the wonderful slashdot decision makers that came up with the captcha idea for logged in users. Great bleeding idea. Now I'll be forced to give up my markov-chain generating slashdot posting AI alter-ego and write comments myself.

And doubly F them for making the letters look ambigious. This is my third attempt at posting. Thanks, Slashdot, for wasting my time.

A third F them, for my forth attempt... no, really. Please add a second captcha too, could you?

Fifth time, here we go. I encourage everyone else to add a meaningless paragraph for each F-ing captcha fuck-up on slashdot's part.

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.