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Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary by onion2k on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @06:46AM (#14899352)
Amusingly, here in the UK, we also have the crime of "drunk in charge of a carriage" which has been used to prosecute people for being drunk with all manner of things from bicycles to horses.
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Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary by gregn610 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:06AM (#14899445)
"Wanton or Furious riding" is also an offence.
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Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary by gsnedders on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:04AM (#14901385)
Note this is English law (not the nonexistent UK law); this is a simple application of the mischief rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_rule).
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