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How RIPA gets used in practice...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Wed Nov 25 09:05:08 2009

From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:49:49 +0000
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com

The first person jailed under draconian UK police powers that  
Ministers said were vital to battle terrorism and serious crime has  
been identified by The Register as a schizophrenic science hobbyist  
with no previous criminal record.

His crime was a persistent refusal to give counter-terrorism police  
the keys to decrypt his computer files.

[...continues...]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/

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