So, if we were to implement what this author is proposing, governments would be allowed to jail people indefinitely simply because they used effectively unbreakable encryption- regardless of whether what they encrypted was illegal (or evidence of a crime)? Because if so, that is absolutely unacceptable in any society that would call itself free.

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immibis 2 days ago | parent [-]

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Kim_Bruning a day ago | parent | next [-]

I assume you meant "in this proposal, the police could say". On first reading it looks like you meant that this was already possible today?

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ranger_danger 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't know what country you think that is true in, but citation needed.

In the US at least, criminal convictions must be proven "beyond a reasonable doubt", they can't just say that they think there's information there, it must be proven that they already know it's there.

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immibis 19 hours ago | parent [-]

The hypothetical country the article writer wants to live in. The one where if you can't decrypt purported evidence of a crime you get the maximum sentence by default.

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