[ILUG] British law to combat encyption

[Lars Hecking]

Donncha O Caoimh writes:
> RMS paints a dark picture of what it could be like in the UK if you
> encrypt your data..
> 
> http://linuxtoday.com/stories/12846_flat.html
 
 WTF do the Brits think they're doing? The proposed legislation is
 totally at odds with what's happening elsewhere:
 USA and France dropping crypto restrictions. The German government
 allocating IEP 100k for GNU Privacy Guard development. And so on.