Quote from: 16bitgirl on July 04, 2012, 07:07 pmYes, the RIP Act is really quite fucked up. They brought it in alongside a flurry of tabloid scaremongering, claiming it would help catch paedophiles and terrorists (the two most tabloid-friendly excuses for doing anything).Like tabloids really have a leg to stand on after the Milly Dowler thing. Their real objection to cryptography is it would prevent them from rifling through someone's data for the next story.Quote from: 16bitgirl on July 04, 2012, 07:07 pmHowever, not only is RIPA a horrendous violation of privacy, it actually protects those two groups, especially the bloody paedophiles. If you were a paedophile with an encrypted partition of child porn, would you rather:A) Refuse to hand over the encryption keys, and get up to two years in jail, on a rather obscure sounding charge?B) Hand over the keys, get many years in jail with extra beatings and bum-rape thrown in, and be both on the Sex Offenders Registry and under probation for the rest of your life?Nice point, I guess they really didn't think that one through.