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You make it sound like they could demand that I access the encrypted content on a random third party and put me in jail for not coming up with mathematical brea
by davorak 13y ago
You make it sound like they could demand that I access the encrypted content on a random third party and put me in jail for not coming up with mathematical break through needed to decrypted the data without the passphrase.
I doubt the law is that strict. Do you know what level of suspicion or proof for the court to apply jail time?
- drill_sarge 13y agohttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/49 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/49
- davorak 13y agoThanks, also of interest might be the overview notes for section 49: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/notes/division/6/5/1 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/notes/division/6... However after reading about section 49 for the last few minutes I did not spot what the burden of proof is for non-compliance, the range of penalties for non-compliance nor how it scales with offense, and I do not now what "on reasonable grounds", a requirement to use section 49, means in UK law. Another interesting quote is that inorder to issue a notice you "must describe the protected information to which the notice relates;" What counts as describe in UK law? I would hope that authorities would not just beable to guess at the structure. I would hope they are require to have some other evidence that would allow them to describe the information they are seeking.
- DanBC 13y ago> Do you know what level of suspicion or proof for the court to apply jail time? I genuinely do not know anymore. I knew that anti-terror laws were being broken every day in this country. I never imagined it was going to be as flagrant as detaining the husband of a journalist as he changed airplanes in the UK.