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ref date:29 Jul 1999 (WBA)
ENCRYPT ALL YOUR MAIL LONDON SPIES WATCH YOU

Labour promised more open government IT LIED. AGAIN.

HERE'S WHERE LONDON TRIES TO STRIP YOU OF YOU BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO PRIVACY

See these sites for encryption products

To encrypt your mail and files
http://www.aegisrc.com/products/Shell/utils2.htm
http://www.kiarchive.ru:8091/pub/unix/crypto/pgp
http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html

To encrypt you internet connections
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ci2/ssh/index.html
http://www.datafellows.com/products/cryptography/f-sshtt.htm

You have every right to your privacy.

tell Blair just where he can stick his two years in jail for you being able to keep your private lives private from electronic snooping by Whitehall lackies

THERE IS LITTLE DEMOCRACY LEFT IN THE SO CALLED "UK"

CNN U.S.A. 29/July reported

LONDON (IDG) -- Encryption users could face up to two years in prison for refusing to hand over the keys to their code, according to Britain's proposed Electronic Communications Bill.

The bill is causing concern among privacy advocates and opposition parties, who say the bill gives law enforcement wide-reaching power over private Internet communications.

Most aggravating, the bill calls for a possible two years in prison for anyone refusing to turn over the encryption key or the message in plain text to law-enforcement officials. It also calls for a five-year prison term for tipping off senders that they are being investigated, according to Caspar Bowden, director of the London-based Foundation for Information Policy Research.

Even discussing an investigation in public, such as complaining about alleged abuses of law enforcement to the media, may also be punishable by imprisonment, said Bowden. "Let's say that someone under investigation sends me a message with encryption that can only be decrypted by the receiver. The authorities come to me and tell me that they are investigating someone, but won't tell me who, so they ask for all my private keys," Bowden said. Refusing this request from the authorities could get him two years in prison, said Bowden.

In such a case, the authorities would have all of Bowden's private keys, enabling law enforcement to read all encrypted correspondence that was sent to him. Bowden would then have no choice, he said, because by informing anyone of this, and asking them to change their key, he would break the "tipping off" clause of the bill and in turn and face five years imprisonment.

"I can't complain to the newspaper, otherwise it's five years in jail. All I can do is go to a secret tribunal," Bowden said. He's not joking: The tribunal is five judges, only two have to participate, and only one has to lay the groundwork, he added.