strong buildings versus strong encryption

[David Hansen]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2821687.stm

>Corus says a Bi-Steel bank vault would be almost impregnable to even 
>determined robbers.

I take it that the Home Office will be looking at a law to allow the 
police and other assorted bods to order the owners of such vaults to 
open them up, on the police's own say so as in section 51 of RIP (as 
far as I can understand the incredibly badly written drivel that is 
in sections 49-51 of RIP and "schedule" 2. The innocent have nothing 
to fear.

If the Home Office has no such plans then perhaps it could explain 
the double standards it operates in relation to electronic protection 
of information and physical protection of information.


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