Comment by actionfromafar
4 months ago
That’s a huge simplification.
If you don’t have they keys, you can’t hand them over, for one thing.
Also, the wrench treatment is extremely unlikely in most democracies. Now, deplatforming such as seizure of DNS names and such, is another matter and varies, often orthogonally to the risk of wrench treatment.
> the wrench treatment is extremely unlikely in most democracies
If you prefer ... substitute "wrench treatment" for the democratic wording: "jail time and the associated criminal prosecution process"
Where has this happened? For using encryption? Or what are we talking about here?
> what are we talking about here?
We're talking about "if the government turns up asking for your decryption keys, ...".
> Where has this happened?
Pretty much everywhere. Even in the US you can only avoid it if you're careful; if you admit to knowing the keys then you can't. Either way you're dealing with the "criminal prosecution process" as GP pointed out.