--- Shatadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From > http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of +encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html > > "A Minnesota appeals court has ruled that the > presence of encryption software on a computer may be > viewed as evidence of criminal intent." >
Then I must be one terrible criminal! I do LOTS of research into Porn sites (to block them). But then again, they are some of the worst offenders at implanting spies (it is good I do most of my research from 'nix) which I also work at ferreting out and containing in one way or another. The only files that are encrypted on my machine are the ones I don't want some hacker to get because the AV vendors failed to discover the Trojan Horse I had for 1-3 months (the one month before discovery was guaranteed). Yes, it really happened to me! Believe it or not, the Trojan was implanted in some Security tools for Windows - thank goodness I have a waiting period for software I download from questionable sources before I put them into use. If I had ran the programs, there is no telling how much information the Trojan would have siphoned off. Given the fact that it was encrypted, it wouldn't have been very useful to them... All I use encryption for is to protect my personal data (financial and other stuff), and signing messages. The latter is EXTREMELY important. I have had too many wormers pretending to be somebody else that have sent me messages that ostensibly came from somebody else. The FBI must have sent them. There is more truth in that phrase than most people would ever realize. Anybody know of a good country I can move to? The Fascist States of America is getting pretty bad... For heaven's sake, NO I am not in favor of the activity the person was engaged in! But since PGP was not used to hide the evidence and the idiot didn't even clean out his browser history - what can you say? Wouldn't it be interesting to discover that the version of PGP he was using was over seven years old and had never been used? Henry Hertz Hobbit -- Key Name: "Henry Hertz Hobbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pub 1024D/E1FA6C62 2005-04-11 [expires: 2006-04-11] Key fingerprint = ACA0 B65B E20A 552E DFE2 EE1D 75B9 D818 E1FA 6C62 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users