Edward: Section 49 notices are supposed to be served where there is already a reasonable suspicion (ie other evidence) of the key's existence (or the knowledge of a passphrase).
This is not a bug, this is political activism trying to use an entire userbase as leverage against a law some people disagree with. As it happens I find the law highly repugnant when I think of my own private data being rifled through ( when I conduct a thought experiment involving the animal rights activists whom S49's have already been served on, I have to admit that I find it less repugnant than I do those activists, but this is irrelevant). Either way, I don't want my sister's Ubuntu laptop and her freedom being part of my defence against such a law, and I highly doubt she would appreciate being put in that situation without knowledge of it. If the installer did have an option to not create this crypto area, it would need to explain what it means and why you might want to choose that option - and all sensible people would indeed choose not to take part in a probably futile act of disobedience. Let us be quite clear here - RIPA is now about systematic trawling of people's private data, it is a law designed to provide law enforcement agencies with tools to do their work. A section 49 notice must be approved by a senior figure and there is a tribunal where such notices can be appealed. If you are involved in something which convinces these people that you have encrypted data, and you are not exceptionally skilled at countering signals intelligence, they are very likely to be able to produce evidence that you have been actively using the encryption (dimitris' comment above mentions a few of the many, many ways this would be possible), and your "but but all these other laptops have the noise too!" argument is rendered useless. If you do find yourself in a situation where your government is systematically trawling people's private data then you probably have significantly bigger problems than your encrypted bank data being read by a spook. Please do attempt to get the law repealed, but please do not endanger your fellow users by doing so. I think I have said everything I wish to about this subject, but I am sure that more people will call me "Mr Jones" and suggest I am made of straw. I submit that these people are well meaning, but excessively paranoid and their motivations would be better used in other ways. -- General "rubberhose" vulnerability https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148440 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
