Conservative want higher sentences for failure to decrypt child pornography

[Brian Morrison]

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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:43:17 +0100
Roland Perry <roland@linx.net> wrote:

> The logical error here is plain to see. If you know the person has
> prohibited material, you can demonstrate that to the court and achieve
> a conviction. If you think you know it, but have no evidence (because
> it's encrypted) then you will have difficulty proving to the court
> that it's a CPA offence in the first place.

The real logical error here seems to be that they would like to to
change things so that "wishing makes it so". By this token any encrypted
material could be treated as child porn and the owner incarcerated for
daring to encrypt at all.

But, maybe this was where it has been heading from the first....

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk
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