Of course you can get around this issue by using Plausible deniability in your encryption - I think so far three people have been sent to prison for refusing to hand their encryption keys to Police - more scarily still it's not just the pigs- any Home Office approved body can request them e.g the Probation Service, Social Services although so far none have.Further reading:http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/counter-terrorism/regulation-investigatory-powers/andhttps://blog.ironkey.com/?p=842V.Quote from: Limetless on May 15, 2012, 05:13 pmQuote from: oscarzululondon on May 15, 2012, 05:05 pmRIPA - The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) was something the Labour party sneaked through to make us all feel 'safer' as if investigatory powers were being limited, however made a whole new raft of things possible. Ranging from forcing you to hand over your encryption keys to the police (which by the way if you refuse means you can go to prison WITHOUT a trial infront of a jury, the 1 year thing I mentioned earlier) to the fact that every citizen is now supposed to be a police informant and infact if you now witness a crime and fail to inform the police you are infact guilty of committing a criminal act.People don't realise but this is actually used, as I mentioned above friends of mine are in prison for trying to hide torrents (games, films) etc from police by not telling them their TrueCrypt passwords to their laptops etc. It's ludicrous really.Personally I hide all secret data in the 'cloud' now, only accessed using various proxy's of which TOR is one and is fully Encrypted, stored on servers in countries that don't have any legal arrangements with UK or US authorities.What the fuck!?!?!?! As an IRL/Online drug dealer and financial adviser that does NOT me feel "safer". Can't believe I hadn't heard of this before tbh.Tony Blair didn't care about what I thought when he brought this in and then Gordon Brown let me down by not getting rid of it and now David Cameron is morally barren by following suit.Slags.