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First person convicted for refusing to hand over encryption key
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Fritz Wuehler
Nov 24, 2009, 4:55:18 PM11/24/09
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/
The first person has been convicted to 13 months of jailtime for
refusing to give authorities the decryption key for his PGP Whole Disk
Encryption containers. The authorities claim the TOTALITARIAN law that
allows this is 'being used effectively.'
ENCRYPT EVERYTHING!!!
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Nov 27, 2009, 1:10:25 PM11/27/09
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CTC officers suggested JFL's refusal to decrypt the files or give them his
keys would lead to suspicion he was a terrorist or paedophile."There could
be child pornography, there could be bomb-making recipes," said one
detective."Unless you tell us we're never gonna know... What is anybody
gonna think?"JFL says he maintained his silence because of "the principle -
as simple as that"
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keys would lead to suspicion he was a terrorist or paedophile."There could
be child pornography, there could be bomb-making recipes," said one
detective."Unless you tell us we're never gonna know... What is anybody
gonna think?"JFL says he maintained his silence because of "the principle -
as simple as that"
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Right from the begining he should've said the password is ABC when it was
really DEF. Then he could said he say he must have forgotten. It's too late
for that now, they wouldn't believe him.
Could he say the file (even just one byte) was corrupt causing an error ?
Can you prove a file isn't corrupt ? I don't know
enough to answer that.
He didn't pick a dumb password and avoided a dictionary attack
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