Consultation on the Draft Code of Practice for the Investigat ion of Protected Electronic Information: Part III of the Regulation of I nvest igatory Powers Act 2000

[Roland Perry]

In article <20060608111209.32690.qmail@web52704.mail.yahoo.com>, Glyn 
Wintle <glynwintle@yahoo.com> writes
>The ripa consultation contains the following.
>
>18.Where, in those specific circumstances, the person
>found guilty of the section 53 offence could show that
>the protected information did not contain an indecent
>photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child they could
>be liable to no more than a maximum term of two years.
>
>How would it be possible for some one to show that an
>encrypted portion of data did not contain an indecent
>photograph of a child? I guess they could say it was
>too small an amount of data, but would there be any
>other ways?

You can probably get a suitably indecent jpeg into a very few tens of 
kilobytes, so I don't think "size" is going to help you very much here.
-- 
Roland Perry