Backlash Against British Encryption Law

gardenermike writes "The BBC is reporting on some backlash against the British Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) that came into force in 2000, which makes it a criminal act to refuse to decrypt files on a computer. Not surprisingly, the bugaboos of child pornography and terrorism, while unquestionably heinous, are being used to justify a law which does little to protect against either. Lord Phillips of Sudbury is quoted 'You do not secure the liberty of our country and value of our democracy by undermining them, that's the road to hell.'"

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Re:MOD PARENT DOWN

[CTho9305]

Oops... I missed your note at the top in italics (thought you were just quoting the grandparent)

Re:Why is child pornography as bad as terrorism?

[cayenne8]

"To be fair, many would argue that rape and murder are on-par because of the long-term trauma that most people suffer as a result of rape..."

Ok...I've seen the argument before..and I cannot agree. A rape, yes, hideous, horrible, and can scar for life. Murder...END OF LIFE, you can't be scarred for life, you can't go to therapy, you can't recover from MURDER...you go to a dirt nap, and that is that, no questions, no options.

Now, how in the world can you compare the two?

As for degrees of rape, I'd say maybe there could be...male to female rape is bad, but, is based on normal sexual penetrations. Male to male rape? I'd say it was worse as it is not based on normal, societal and natural sexual penetration, and I'd almost guess it would scar a male victim worse than a female one, especially with all the 'gay' connitations?

Would you really want to go into that one above? A big can of worms there for degrees of rape I think.

I didn't put female to male rape....'cause you can't rape the willing...

:-)