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India's Worrying Draft Encryption Policy
knwny writes: The government of India is working on a new National Encryption Policy the contents of which have raised a few alarms.Among other things, the policy states that citizens and businesses must save all encrypted messages (including personal or unofficial ones) and their plaintext copies for 90 days and make them available to law enforcement agencies as and when demanded. The policy also specifies that only the government of India shall define the algorithms and key sizes for encryption in India. The policy is posted on this website.
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...always trying to invade the privacy of their citizens. I'm just thankful that I Iive in the U.S.A. where that kind of thing... Oh, wait...
Not to mention all of your spam e-mails that you looked at via HTTPS webmail. Because if you don't keep an unencrypted copy of "herbal viagra for sale by nigerian princes whose daughters want to video chat with you" for 90 days then you're breaking the law!
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Waitaminute. If an Indian watches a DRMed movie, he'll be required by law to have cracked it and ripped it? If I sell DRMed media to Indians, am I going to automatically be a conspirator, if my customer doesn't crack it?
There needs to be a DRM exception.
And I'd rather not discuss the consequences of such an exception. ;-)
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