Lying and RIP

[Ross Anderson]

Piete Brooks:

> if someone were to ask me every day `have you been served with a section
> 46 notice', and every day I say `no', then I would be forced to lie, as
> if I did not say `no', but just kept silent, that would be an `omission'

Better still: get someone to ask you to swear each day, under the
penalties of perjury, that you had not been served with such a notice
- and give them the means of trashing your keys if you don't respond.

Add to this a one day delay in recovering keys from backup.

This `perjury trap' appeared in my paper on the Eternity Service back
in 1995. I've yet to find a lawyer who could explain to me why it
doesn't work. Surely a court can't order you to commit perjury - it's
not just your immortal soul (and a criminal offence), it undermines
the whole foundation of court procedure


Ross