RIPA Part III

[Ross Anderson]

One problem the Home Office creates for itself by uttering the magic
'kiddieporn' spell is that the magic is starting to get tatty.

In a significant number of the Operation Ore cases, it now appears
that the poor chaps who had their doors broken down at 4am were not
bad people who had downloaded filthy pictures - they were unlucky
people who were the victims of credit card fraud.

The following article is a must-read:

  http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/74690/operation-ore-exposed.html

I believe that after reading it any fair-minded man would completely
reject the Home Office's suggestion that uttering the spell in
question should lead to the police being granted any extra powers
whatsoever.

Ross