> http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/cybercrimebill01/cybercrime_bill01.pdf
>
> Recommendation 4:
>
> The Committee recommends that items 12 and 28 of Schedule 2 be amended by
> inserting 'relevant' before 'knowledge' in paragraph 3LA(2)(c) of the
> Crimes Act 1914 and paragraph 201A(2)(c) of the Customs Act 1901.
Unfortunately the Committee does not appear to have fully understood the
comments of several of the submissions relating to the assistance
provisions (the same comments that arose in response to the RIP Bill
in the UK several years ago, I should point out. The legislation was
subsequently amended to address this concern.)
The proposed legislation (even including the recommended amendment) does
not provide any means for a person to prove that they _don't_ have
"relevent knowledge" that could assist law enforcement bypass something
like encryption or a password.
Instructed by a magistrate to disclose your password or encryption key?
Forgotten your password? The floppy disk on which you store the
encryption key unreadable? The piece of paper on which an encryption
password was written lost in the last office move? Simply can't find it?
6 months imprisonment.
*sigh*
Grant
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