An Interesting RIP Report Stage Amendment

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

It forces you to make a choice.  But if the key is not a personal key
rather, but rather a corporate key, the choice is unlikely to be painful,
which is probably the (main) point - large corporations will be able to
act to protect their security.

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Brian Gladman wrote:

> > From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
> > To: "ukcrypto" <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 6:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: An Interesting RIP Report Stage Amendment
> >
> > I submit that a slightly more likely reading of this amendment is after
> > Plod asks "What other information does it protect?" then "Me" has to say
> > something like "it gives access to Exxon's payroll" or "this protects
> > vital trade secrets for BT."  No court will require Plod to do the
> > impossible.
> 
> So the Bill forces people to reveal things to the State that the State has
> no right to know.
> 
> Why am I not surprised by this?
> 
>      Brian
> 
> 
> 

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