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Worth noting that with RIPA (2000, activated in 2007) UK has enforced key disclosure. It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason (
by yuumei 1y ago
Worth noting that with RIPA (2000, activated in 2007) UK has enforced key disclosure. It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason (including random data).
I would say the UK has worse privacy than any other country on earth. I'm really hoping for plausible deniability to become more common to help protect against the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
- nickslaughter02 1y agoMore countries will follow after they ratify Russia's "United Nations Convention against Cybercrime" which has key disclosure explicitly stated in the text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_against_Cybercrime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_agai...
- rollcat 1y ago> It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason [...]. So it's also illegal to not know the password? I've forgotten my own debit card PIN or phone unlock code on a couple occasions. > (including random data) Encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data. The only hint is the presence of metadata (GPG armor, bootloader password prompt, etc). This law is catch-all BS designed to persecute people for no other reason.
- Tenemo 1y agoThe UK has worse privacy than ANY other country on Earth? Really?
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- Gud 1y agoNo other country has willingly turned itself into a total panopticon, no. Perhaps others would like to - but they don't have the resources. You can't walk a fucking meter on the streets without being recorded by the nanny state.