Wednesday, October 10, 2007

In accordance with prophecy

And lo, it has come to pass that Part 3, Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act is finally being implemented. This has been much lamented for many years since it was tabled.
Amusingly, the heretics at Ars Technica point out:
Yet the law, in a strange way, almost gives criminals an "out," in that those caught potentially committing serious crimes may opt to refuse to decrypt incriminating data. A pedophile with a 2GB collection of encrypted kiddie porn may find it easier to do two years in the slammer than expose what he's been up to.

Seems like it's time to bring back / bring forth SFS (née VS3FS) [Citeseer]. Carl and/or Paul and/or Peter: where are you? *
With SFS you can at least claim:
  1. not to have incriminating data on your disk at all and, if that fails

  2. to have only mildly bad data on your disk - maybe a pirated eBook

It's easier than claiming you "forgot" your keys...

*(presumably Paul is still on the road from Damascus - no online presence detected...) (also note the biblical naming: Peter & Paul!?)

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