In England you can go to jail for keeping noise
(approx. translator)
In recent days, everyone is discussing the notorious bill No. 89417-6 , while cursing our country for such an ill-conceived law. With this translation (the full heading of which is just below) I want to show that not only do we have laws that allow us to attract anyone to the article almost out of the blue. In some countries it is still worse. Much worse. And let's hope that this nonsense will not reach us.
In comments to yesterday's post, everyone was surprised by the fact that in England encryption was outlawed: citizens of the country would be sent to jail for up to five years if they could not produce the key to their encrypted data.
First, the reference to the law . The bottom line is that you will be sent to prison for refusing to show the data encryption keys, regardless of whether you have them or not. Five years for suspicion of terrorism (or child pornography), otherwise just two years. Surprisingly, there are as many as four eternal reasons to justify violations of democracy. These are terrorism, child porn, file sharing and the organization of criminal activity. Convenient excuse for all measures.
After all, we knew that this was supposed to be the next step in the game of cat and mouse in the field of privacy? At first, the government decided that it had the right to intervene in any of the seven confidential aspects of our life, if it needed it. The reciprocal step, of course, is the attempts of citizens to protect themselves from global surveillance. And here some bureaucrats have doubts about the ability of the government to follow the life of citizens, although it has the right to do so at any moment. And they make the next move: they decide to impose harsh penalties for any citizens who are trying to protect their personal data and privacy rights. And this is not a dystopia of the future - this is happening in England, here and now!
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But still worse. Much worse. You will be sent to jail not for refusing to show the encryption key. You will be sent to jail for your inability to decipher something that the police will consider encrypted. Yes, this is exactly the place where hair stands on end: if you recorded a radio noise file from a local telescope that you use to generate random numbers, and the police require a key to decrypt the three secret documents that they believe are in an encrypted container, to which your noise very much looks, then you immediately go to places not so remote. For the inability to produce imaginary documents.
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In recent days, everyone is discussing the notorious bill No. 89417-6 , while cursing our country for such an ill-conceived law. With this translation (the full heading of which is just below) I want to show that not only do we have laws that allow us to attract anyone to the article almost out of the blue. In some countries it is still worse. Much worse. And let's hope that this nonsense will not reach us.
In England, you can get behind bars not only for data encryption, but also for astronomical noise.
In comments to yesterday's post, everyone was surprised by the fact that in England encryption was outlawed: citizens of the country would be sent to jail for up to five years if they could not produce the key to their encrypted data.
First, the reference to the law . The bottom line is that you will be sent to prison for refusing to show the data encryption keys, regardless of whether you have them or not. Five years for suspicion of terrorism (or child pornography), otherwise just two years. Surprisingly, there are as many as four eternal reasons to justify violations of democracy. These are terrorism, child porn, file sharing and the organization of criminal activity. Convenient excuse for all measures.
After all, we knew that this was supposed to be the next step in the game of cat and mouse in the field of privacy? At first, the government decided that it had the right to intervene in any of the seven confidential aspects of our life, if it needed it. The reciprocal step, of course, is the attempts of citizens to protect themselves from global surveillance. And here some bureaucrats have doubts about the ability of the government to follow the life of citizens, although it has the right to do so at any moment. And they make the next move: they decide to impose harsh penalties for any citizens who are trying to protect their personal data and privacy rights. And this is not a dystopia of the future - this is happening in England, here and now!
')
But still worse. Much worse. You will be sent to jail not for refusing to show the encryption key. You will be sent to jail for your inability to decipher something that the police will consider encrypted. Yes, this is exactly the place where hair stands on end: if you recorded a radio noise file from a local telescope that you use to generate random numbers, and the police require a key to decrypt the three secret documents that they believe are in an encrypted container, to which your noise very much looks, then you immediately go to places not so remote. For the inability to produce imaginary documents.
falkvinge@fraka:/home$ ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2011-12-06 01:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2012-04-23 12:22 ..
-rw----r-- 1 root root 34359738368 2012-07-12 10:51 narrowbandnoise-32.raw, ! .
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/147769/
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