On 4 Mar 2015 at 7:47, Sandeep Murthy wrote: [...] > Once such a data retention law is in place it is dangerous because > inevitably there is a "mission creep" that sets in - it is not > hard to imagine one day that encryption software users, maybe GPG > users, will be required to disclose information about the way they use > it. I think in the UK recently the PM made some ambiguous comments > which can be interpreted as seeking a ban on end-to-end encryption > software by private users on the grounds that terrorists benefit just > as much as ordinary law-abiding citizens from using encryption. Of > course this shows he just does not understand the issues involved and > this idea will not go anywhere.
I assume everybody here knows http://xkcd.com/538/ ....... and stuff like this is law in some countries. Coercive detention, or (if we just forget "law, what the f*** is law") some fine ideas used against unlawful combatants...... Today in paranoid mode Matthias -- Unsere Korrespondenz kann mitgelesen werden. Wollen Sie das erschweren, mailen wir uns gerne mit (Open)PGP verschlüsselt. -- Matthias Mansfeld Elektronik * Leiterplattenlayout Neithardtstr. 3, 85540 Haar; Tel.: 089/4620 093-7, Fax: -8 Internet: http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de OpenPGP: http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de/gnupgkey/mansfeld.asc Fingerprint: 6563 057D E6B8 9105 1CE4 18D0 4056 1F54 8B59 40EF _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
