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First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys

Posted by samzenpus on from the tell-us-everything dept.

kylehase writes "The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) is being used for the first time to force an animal activist to reveal encryption keys for encrypted files she claims to have no knowledge of. According to the article, she could face up to two years if she doesn't comply."

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  1. huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how can you be put in jail for not knowing something?

  2. Re:Duh by mccabem · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Teacher hating very often fits into that same way of thinking.

    Business and government are similar in that they are all staffed and run by people (that is, greedy grafty nasty people). They are different in that we elect our government people and there is some oversight of the work and the results - sometimes late, and sometimes shoddy, but the oversight is there.. A business on the other hand, involves no community decision, is run as a dictatorship and there is minimal oversight (less and less every day since the 80's).

    I'm not anti-business, just honest. The problems come from the people, not the organizational method. The organizational method is supposed to be a way of compensating for the problems while minimizing the bad side-effects.

    Being anti-gov't or anti-teacher is just a way of parroting something you heard from someone else -- it's not a legitimate position to argue from.