Re: UK RIPA Pt 3

* Peter Fairbrother:
Well, if Mr Gates is a witness and not a suspect, such coercive measures are well within the legal framework of most countries. As a witness, you must testify. It simply does not matter if the information you are asked to provide is encrypted, or is stored in a database and needs significant preprocessing to obtain. It would be quite surprising if this was any different in the UK. So it's purely the self-incrimination part that is questionable from a legal POV. I think this bears repeating because we face a similar discussion in Germany regarding covert data seizure using technological measures, and the discussion focuses almost entirely on the technological measures. But the legal obstacle is just the covertness. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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Florian Weimer