tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post1115879839657904327..comments2024-03-29T14:09:49.674+00:00Comments on Liberal England: House Points: The RIPA and council spyingJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-70136794388786979432008-07-01T11:08:00.000+01:002008-07-01T11:08:00.000+01:00Council snoopers sitting in cars outside peoples' ...Council snoopers sitting in cars outside peoples' houses is nothing to do with computers or encryption; I think you miss the point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-88655431272553536562008-06-30T16:23:00.000+01:002008-06-30T16:23:00.000+01:00The real joke about the RIPA is not the serious ab...The real joke about the RIPA is not the serious abuse of it, but the ease with which it can be evaded. <BR/><BR/>Strong modern encryption is effectively uncrackable by any normal means; you simply cannot brute force the code quickly enough to break it inside the lifetime of a person. Similarly systems such as the Truecrypt nested encryption make it possible to comply with demands for encryption keys without handing over critical ones, and without the police being able to tell that you are not complying with their instructions.<BR/><BR/>Effectively, the RIP Act is just a means to oppress the law-abiding and the stupid lawbreaker, whilst the slightly smarter lawbreaker can simply laugh at the strictures of the Law with impunity.<BR/><BR/>Even if you do by some chance manage to pin someone down using the RIP Act, you still achieve very little. A paedophile or terrorist would look at the maximum penalties the Law can enforce with the RIP Act and say "Thankyou very much, I'll take that over life on the sex offenders register or house arrest".<BR/><BR/>This would happen anyway, BTW; the RIP Act isn't the cause of this. No, the problem with the RIP Act is that it can be used against the innocent as a tool of oppression (and is being done, very frequently now).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com