Unfinished Business

[Adam Atkinson]

On 16-Jun-00 15:32:16, Jon Ribbens said:
>"Adam Atkinson (ETL)" <adam.atkinson@etl.ericsson.se> wrote:
>> Can UK laws be retroactive? I guess not. 

>Yes, they can, if they are explicitly stated to be so.

>On the plus side, Article 7 of the ECHR disallows retroactively
>criminalising behaviour.

So how does this affect the iterative procedure of "HO criminalises
attempts to bypass RIP-n, crypto people bypass RIP n+1"?

If Plod intercepts stuff sent before RIP n+1 came out, can they wait
until the law changes then demand decrypts in the new sense?

-- 
Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk)
VOLCANO MISSING FEARED DEAD