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From the article: “This is not what ought to happen in a free country.”

What do you expect from a country that's been a police state for the last 23 years or so.

With the introduction of the RIP Act in 2000, which compels those with encrypted data to divulge the keys, under penalty of imprisonment. From that, I could tell something had gone very wrong with our government, even back then.

The RIP Act opened the door to government policing of what information we are reading. Because you could no longer encrypt your data to hide it from the state's prying eyes. It was a watershed moment. And that point was where I could say the UK is no longer a free country anymore.

[timrichard]

Interesting to see what happens to the current campaign against encryption, in light of them trying to keep WhatsApp messages from an enquiry for the sake of their privacy.