How would this go down in the UK?

To me the author seemed like an idiot. Guilty or not, mistake or not he still seemed like an arrogant so and so!

Its a tough subject though, if you are completly innocent then you have a right to privacy but if you are guilty....

I think we have it right with the RIPA to be honest. Alright some privacy is compromised but they must have good reason to invoke the act in the first place.
 
Telescopi said:
Should be like drink driving - refuse to blow and the punishment is the same as if you were over the limit.
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it's not as clear cut though, as you dont know what law hes breaking until you look at it? He could have documentation proving he murdered hundreds, or it could be a 600x400 jpg of a teen......only he knows
 
[TW]Fox;16385647 said:
I'd rather he was downloading CP than abusing real children for kicks.
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Downloading CP encourages the practice of creating said films though. It still has an indirect impact on children globally.
 
KNiVES said:
Downloading CP encourages the practice of creating said films though. It still has an indirect impact on children globally.
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I think the sickos who create this stuff do so for their own reasons, the fact others watch it is a byproduct rather than a cause :(
 
I think this threads not so much about what he did (obviously as it can't be proven) but more about getting away with encrypting data and not providing the key. Is there anything in the law that states you have to provide it ? if there's no key there's no evidence which means there's no case and a large potential loop whole to be abused.

MW
 
SlyReaper said:
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TrueCrypt has a useful feature which you can use in case you are forced to reveal your password. You can create a hidden partition inside the main encrypted partition. Basically, you enter your main password to decrypt the main volume (which can contain all your normal porn), and if you use your super-top-secret password, it opens a smaller encrypted partition (which contains the stuff you really really really don't want anyone to see). And because of the way TrueCrypt deals with volume headers and whatnot, there's no way to prove there's a hidden partition in there. It just looks like random bits, which you would expect.
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If you have a decent forensic expert, there's a very high chance he will find it proof of its existence these days. Certainly not worth relying on.

As said, this wouldn't stand a chance in the UK. I wonder if he would get the full 5 years thrown at him.
 
If you take the article at face value it does appear that he was looking for porn (but not CP specifically), downloaded a collection only to find at a later date that it contained CP, but he seems to either believe he might not have deleted it all or does know he hasn't deleted it all. Hard one to call based on the information presented.

I'd be suprised tho if they didn't copy the data off the discs directly 1:1 for analysis in a case like this - so even if they gave his hardware back they should still have copy - and I'm suprised they couldn't manage to find some useful information its not like truecrypt is entirely unbreakable.
 
xJcBx said:
Although it shows how much of a good program it is and how I think i'm going to invest in it for my external HDD now.
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No investment needed, its free software :p

Interesting read, but some of it does sound too good to be true.
I mean are we honestly to belive that he was that defiant with the police, FBI & in court?
And considering some of the actions he took without his attorney around, he must have known a far bit about laws himself.
Seems fishly tbh.

Although the UK law of us having to reveal the password to encrypted items isnt one i agree with tbh. For whatever reason.
 
What is stopping me going onto someone's pc using truecrpyt on a bunch of useless files and then anonymously reporting the person for potentially having child pornography or terrorist related material. Couldn't i do this to pretty much anyone i didn't like?
 
sanaxe1 said:
What is stopping me going onto someone's pc using truecrpyt on a bunch of useless files and then anonymously reporting the person for potentially having child pornography or terrorist related material. Couldn't i do this to pretty much anyone i didn't like?
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Yes, you could also kill someone and frame your friend :p

Your friend wouldn't really be able to defend against that as forgetting the key isn't a defence. Unless the police needed more evidence than just your say so, not sure how that works.
 
Rroff said:
but he seems to either believe he might not have deleted it all or does know he hasn't deleted it all. Hard one to call based on the information presented.
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Well it's still possible that they could recover it after it's been deleted.

BoomAM said:
And considering some of the actions he took without his attorney around, he must have known a far bit about laws himself.
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Actions such as asking for a lawyer? I think that's pretty common.
 
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BoomAM said:
No investment needed, its free software :p
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Invest time into reading into it - Sorry!

I agree with the laws on giving the passwords, but at the same time, I wouldn't want to trust my local PC Plod with a facebook password, letalone an encryption key if I was the head of IT for a big buisness.

But if it even hints at helping towards putting a stop to any child porn, i'm all for it.
 
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