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[Caspar Bowden]

>Now that is good news indeed. Lord Lucas proposed exactly that in the
>House of Lords, but they would have none of it. It seems they are
>finally realising that they have bitten off more than they can chew.

I don't think there is any suggestion that they are thinking of holding
Pt.III in abeyance (indefinitely). I've long had the impression that the
working level civil servants have known for a long time that they have
bitten off more than they can chew, but they were told to stop grizzling and
get on with it by their political masters at the behest of spooks and
policeman (wonder if John Abbott was working late at NCIS in Spring Gardens
when someone launched an RPG at MI6 from his front-doorstep. Tsk-tsk)

A major reason for delay is to train judges in crypto (seriously), so that
when any local trading-standards/planning/meat-hygiene officer wants to get
a decryption notice from a judge to turn over someone's computer, under
S.49(2)b(ii), the judge will have some clue as to how to apply "safeguards"
of proportionality, irrelevant material under same key, privileged data,
etc.

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Caspar Bowden               Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
RIP Information Centre at:    www.fipr.org/rip#media