Paul ("Gary") Beresford MP's CJP amendment on failure to decr ypt

[David Biggins]

Ben Laurie [ben@algroup.co.uk] wrote:

> So what does "We took the view that the penalty for that offence did
not
> and should not depend on or vary according to the nature of the
material
> that may be protected by that key." mean, then?

Just what it says : "we took the view that in order to terrify everyone
into co-operation, we'd throw the book at them for refusing to hand over
the encryption keys to any encrypted material, no matter how trivial".

## dave ##