🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <lgdbbbINNrfv@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
jfarrell@cloudbase (Jerry Farrell) writes:
>Post-facto demands for a key could be met by
>stonewalling or legitimate ignorance of a session key; a simple "I
>don't rmember" sufficed for James R. Hoffa, and would likely reappear
>as needed.  And the penalty for failure to provide a key on (warranted)
>demand would very likely be less than the penalty for the hidden crime;
>we could expect some people to accept jail for contempt (or whatever)
>in lieu of revealing the keys LE would *really* like to see.

Another claim that could be made, which would likely avoid a contempt
citation, would be "That? Oh, that's random noise I stored to mess
the minds of snoopy officials."

If this (key registration, whatever) comes to pass, I suspect civil
libertarians would make a point of storing noise in their personal
files (or at least claim to do so).

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