Criminal Jusctice and Police bill

[Q G Campbell]

Scary indeed! If the UK C&E are interested in laptop computers then
if you are carrying one you are likley to have *all* your luggage turned
out, clothing searched, etc, since you could quite easily have switched
the HDD for a vanilla one and hidden the one with all the important info
elsewhere on your person or in your luggage.

Perhaps it would be better to ship two copies of your HDD, with its
presumably encrypyted contents, ahead of your departure by plane in
order to avoid problems. Detecting HDDs in the post or with couriers
is likely to be harder than finding them at airport C&E channels?=20
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It is curious how the priorites of C&E organisations differ between
countries. In Australia it appears that the C&E equivalent there is much
more concerned about the import of plant/animal diesases and pests than
they are about the import of drugs. Presumably the logic of this is that
drugs do not imperil Ausralias important export market in primary
products.

On my recent returns to Australia I have yet to avoid an anti-food
sniffer dog. On one occasion my briefcase was searched because the dog
had detected a "food" smell. The probable cause, they decided, was the
residual odour of a banana that I had been carrying three days earlier
with my sandwiches!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brewis, Mark [mailto:mark.brewis@edl.uk.eds.com]
Sent: 08 February 2001 17:05
To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Subject: RE: Criminal Jusctice and Police bill


From: Donald ramsbottom [mailto:donald@ramsbottom.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 7:22 AM
To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Subject: Criminal Jusctice and Police bill


>>S:71 MAY give ISPs a headache as it deals with the importation of
Pornography.<<

The requirement to be "knowingly concerned" in importation should
provide a
let out to ISP's, so I'd agree with MAY.  Do you know what the
definition of
'goods' within the C&EMA 1979 is?  Can it be extrapolated to data
bitstream?

>>Remember to be very nice to the C&E man when you are on that business
trip
which you can't be late for and need the presentation slides on your
Notebook!<<

Too scary for words...

Mark Brewis=20