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Re:In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, b... by harry8 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:59AM (#12843530)
This is the assange/guardian/greenwald law.

So they can jail journalists as terrorists and hunt their sources.

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Re:In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, b... by pmyteh on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:26AM (#12845053)
This significantly pre-dates the Assange/Guardian/Greenwald stuff. The purpose of the law was to stop being able to get off child pornography and terrorism charges by refusing to provide an encryption key.

Now, I think the law is misguided in principle and potentially malicious in practice, but it was never about prosecuting journalists.

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