A couple of questions
Barnaby Prendergast
ybanrab at hotmail.com
Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:26:21 BST
>"Stephen Lafferty" <stephen@slafferty.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>Could any passing lawyer please provide an example of a >case where drug
>dealers, paedophiles or pornographers >were able to avoid a guilty verdict
>because the >prosecution could not decrypt files on the accused's >hard
>drive. I can't seem to find any evidence for this >in any promotional
>literature issued by the government.
John Carr of NCH Action for Children has said, if I recall correctly, that
there have been cases where the CPS had been unable to prosecute owing to
encrypted evidence. Bit of an untestable theory, I assume, without standing
in the line of libel fire:-)
B
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