French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
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#2The legal system in the UK recognizes several rights against self-incrimination, but there is a carve-out for the per se crime of failing to disclose a key to encrypted information - punishable by years in prison.
How is this different than refusing to tell where you've buried the bodies? Why should the police be permitted to assume you're guilty and in possession of vital information under certain circumstances?
Re: French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
#3The legal system in the UK recognizes several rights against self-incrimination, but there is a carve-out for the per se crime of failing to disclose a key to encrypted information - punishable by years in prison. How is this different than refusing to tell where you've buried the bodies? Why should the police be permitted to assume you're guilty and in possession of vital information under certain circumstances?
I suspect the law is not intended to be logically consistent.
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#4That is a disgrace. A direct consequence of totalitarian laws. And at the same time, I really want to know the role of the French government. I cannot believe HMG cares whether someone was amongst the hundreds of thousands who demonstrated last week. Why set up such an ambush for a book publisher?
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#5The legal system in the UK recognizes several rights against self-incrimination, but there is a carve-out for the per se crime of failing to disclose a key to encrypted information - punishable by years in prison. How is this different than refusing to tell where you've buried the bodies? Why should the police be permitted to assume you're guilty and in possession of vital information under certain circumstances?
> How is this different than refusing to tell where you've buried the bodies?
They can get away with it because it’s on a computer. The voters don’t care, and the MPs by and large don’t understand. Those who do would love the same principle to apply to the body case as well.
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#6What the fuck. Nobody gets my passwords.
I’m not unlocking shit for anyone.
Looks like UK is on the hard avoid list.
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#7Western democracies are falling into authoritarian behavior at a remarkable rate. I am legit worried.
Re: French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
#8What the fuck. Nobody gets my passwords. I’m not unlocking shit for anyone. Looks like UK is on the hard avoid list.
I know, I was thinking of going there next year, not now.
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#9This is why passcodes are better than biometric auth. It’s easy for an officer to hold the phone up to your face.
Re: French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
#10The legal system in the UK recognizes several rights against self-incrimination, but there is a carve-out for the per se crime of failing to disclose a key to encrypted information - punishable by years in prison. How is this different than refusing to tell where you've buried the bodies? Why should the police be permitted to assume you're guilty and in possession of vital information under certain circumstances?
> How is this different than refusing to tell where you've buried the bodies? They can get away with it because it’s on a computer. The voters don’t care, and the MPs by and large don’t understand. Those who do would love the same principle to apply to the body case as well.
That's because the memory of truly oppressive governments in Western Europe has faded. People who don't remember history, are doomed to repeat it.