In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, but for Noise, Too

Re:In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, b... by grkvlt on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @05:19AM (#12844305)

Yes, and in fact, for that (radio telescope data) case, there is a pretty obvious null 'key' you can hand over - or rather, load the data file into JodrellBank.exe and show them what it is. If, on the other hand, you have been trying to troll the police and MI5 with:

    % dd if=/dev/random of=terr0r_pl4nz.dat count=2048

Then, good luck with that.

But really, stop doing that; it's not as clever as you think. In fact, the provocative filename gives reasonable suspicion you are an (incompetent) terrorist, and the police and security services don't like their time being wasted while you try and prove a point.

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Re:In the UK, You Will Go to Jail Not Just for Encryption, b... by jlgaddis on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:44PM (#12847571)

In my first month of high school (c. 1993), similar trolling (renaming a README.TXT to VIRUS.EXE on a floppy disk) got me kicked out of any computer classes and banned from touching any of the school's computers for the remainder of my high school career.

That was when I learned that the "powers that be" don't like you fucking with them.

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