Minister promises that Part III is coming

James Davis ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri, 12 May 2006 08:15:17 +0100


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Richard Clayton wrote:

> The threat to public safety posed by terrorist use of encryption
> technology was recognised in section 15 of the Terrorism Act 2006, which
> increased the maximum penalty for the section 53 offence to five years
> in a national security case. 

Possibly a daft question but I'm new to the list. Has there been a case
of terrorists using encryption? I can't think of any examples off the
top of my head, only of terrorists speaking in code.

James

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