Mastermind and the road to Damascus

David Hansen ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:50:58 -0000


On 23 Feb 2009 at 16:19, Roland Perry wrote:

> Won't the policeman be deciding if the photo is potentially "information 
> of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act 
> of terrorism", and as a result arrest the photographer.
> 
> When it gets to court,

Most unlikely. That isn't what the police bod wants.

Until they are held to account forsuch things the police will continue 
in a disreputable way, in the knowledge that they will never be held to 
account for it.



-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
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