Unfinished Business

[Adam Atkinson (ETL)]

> Are you presuming that people will begin to use unnecessarily
> complicated encryption merely to protect themselves against the Act?

Of course. Are you saying they won't? I think RIP-avoidance will
happen in a big way. People won't use "unnecessarily" complicated
encryption, though. Just some form of encryption that renders
RIP moot or impotent. Tax law has worked like this forever, and
comms/crypto law is probably going to go the same way.

> That seems more than slightly perverse.

Not at all. If RIP passes, and to mock it I need to communicate
in riddles, crosswords, and references to my Aunt's sexual
relationships with milkmen, then so be it.

We can look forward to having a good laugh as the HO iteratively
attempts to outlaw techniques used to render RIP version n moot.

Can UK laws be retroactive? I guess not.