Comment by jahewson
1 day ago
In the case of the U.K., they can throw you in jail for not handing over your encryption key, so it’s a moot point. They’ve been slowly expanding this power for twenty years now.
1 day ago
In the case of the U.K., they can throw you in jail for not handing over your encryption key, so it’s a moot point. They’ve been slowly expanding this power for twenty years now.
Not for content in the cloud, as far as I understand. Someone will correct me, but you can be arrested and threatened with terror charges if you dont unlock your device, but this does not give them permission to access other computers via the internet.
Tommy Robinson trial for refusing to provide his unlock credentials when ingressing UK is happening in March this year.
ive been through all this with the law. no one ever got jailed for not handing over encryption keys unless they were a definitive criminal and theres strong evidence there is criminal data on the device.
they tried this with me (NCA) but the judge wouldnt sign off as they had nothning on me or my device. this did however REALLY want to access it! fuck them. pricks
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/25/tommy-robinson-c...
you just gave an example of a man who was highly likely to have something of interest on his phone. (as signed by a judge)
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Ah yes, the “we have all the power but pinky promise to only use it on the bad guys” playbook. I have complete confidence and trust in that promise. /s