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- From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- Message-ID: <721063321.21459@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:22:01 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- From: morpheus@entropy.mcds.com (morpheus)
- >ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud) writes:
- >
- >> I believe in being able to protect my data, until I am presented with a court
- >> order to allow it to be searched.
- >
- >I believe in being able to protect my data. (note period) ...
- >
- >Hypothetically say I have all my data encrypted with 'mega-DES ]I[' - how will
- >an "ummm... I can't remember the key, sorry" hold up in court (assuming said
- >court had the papers they need, etc). Would that be perjury? Can they
- >subpeona a mental construct? What could they legally do? (legally as in per
- >constitution, etc. Not the FBI's version..)
- >
-
- If you want to deal with lying under oath to a court, go ahead. And would you
- also refuse a court order to search your house? If not, then why not? The
- only difference between searching a house and a disk drive would seem to be
- that it's a lot easier to defend a disk drive against legal search.
-
- - Ron Sharp.
-