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UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense
truthsearch writes "Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals court has ruled. The case marked an interesting challenge to the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which in part compels someone served under the act to divulge an encryption key used to scramble data on a PC's hard drive. The appeals court heard a case in which two suspects refused to give up encryption keys, arguing that disclosure was incompatible with the privilege against self incrimination. In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will."
What's wrong with this post? It's not that bad. Not like the usual first post trolling, actually refers to the article in some way, and is a pun on first post! Some mods are probably just modding first post down as a matter of habit by now.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
Yup.
Some mods are getting a little happy with the -1's methinks.
Personal experience here: I see no problem with slamming someone that is blatantly trying to troll as that kind of behaviour has no place here but then I get modded down as a troll. What's the deal?
If someone is being blatanly racist and off-topic I find it offensive that it gets modded "Insightful"
Its this kind of behaviour that makes people stop paying attention to the karma.
I'll probably get slammed for this but in my opinion anyone that can mod http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=994523&cid=25366727 as Insightful isn't worth shit.
Thankfully it's been changed by someone with an ounce of moral fibre but it deeply disturbs me that there are people with this mentality.
I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was going blame you for it!
Congressional term limits need to be re-imposed. Career politicians/lawmakers are the problem.