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you get "something" stored on your device. You don't know if it's a students English paper, home made pornography, nuclear launch codes... or CP. You just get a
by valdiorn 14y ago
you get "something" stored on your device. You don't know if it's a students English paper, home made pornography, nuclear launch codes... or CP. You just get a block of bytes that sits on your drive, and maybe, somebody somewhere has the key to unlock it.
Until that happens, you don't know, you don't need to know, and you can't know, that's the whole point.
- drcongo 14y agoPretty sure this makes it illegal in the UK under our crazy encryption laws [1]. I definitely wouldn't want to be the one to test it. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4234614 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4234614
- mseebach 14y agoIt might well be illegal under crazy laws, but not the one you link to: Beneath the vitriol a very important point was made: The prosecution has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have the key and that you're refusing to hand it over. The presence of software like this, traces of your participation in such a network is reasonable doubt. Even with this proven, refusing to decrypt is what they get you for, not what they think you've got encrypted.
- sturd 14y agoIf you only have portions of alleged illegal files on your machine, you won't be able to decrypt it. As far as the blocks of data goes on your machine, it's indecipherable rubbish.
- conductor 14y agoThat's it! The governments take our privacy and freedoms one by one, and we are afraid to fight it or even say NO... They have won. The people is already under total control, nobody can take the power from the people ruling this world.