Re: British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail

[Adam Langley]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:56:09PM -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> It is also not at all impossible that the government could be pissed off by
> your anarchist tendencies and plant some encrypted stuff on your computer
> (like, for example, sending you encrypted mail with a forged "from" address
> so that it appears to come from someone you correspond with), and then you'd
> be unable to prove that you don't have the keys.
> 

Someone did this to Jack Straw (the Home Office minister in the UK, this is a
Home Office bill). See
ttp://www.stand.org.uk/dearjack/photostory.php3

AGL

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