[Clips] Storm Brews Over Encryption 'Safe Harbor' in Data Breach Bills

[Greg Rose]

At 00:48 2005-06-03 +0100, Ian G wrote:
>Just to make it more interesting, the AG of New York, Elliot Spitzer
>has introduced a  package of legislation intended to "rein in identity theft"
>including:
>
>   Facilitating prosecutions against computer hackers by creating
>   specific criminal penalties for the use of encryption to conceal
>   a crime, to conceal the identity of another person who commits
>   a crime, or to disrupt the normal operation of a computer;

Ah, imagine the beautiful circularity of the Justice Department using 
encryption to protect their criminal identity database from disclosure... 
or not.

Greg.

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