@neil if I have a USB stick with some encrypted data on it and the police raid my house and take it as part of some investigation they are doing, does the police then have means to force me to tell them the encryption passphrase? If so, what punishment would they threaten me with if I refuse?

@eliasr @neil Assuming you can even remember (I do/did have an encrypted file that I cannot remember the password for)

@Dragon @eliasr @neil an encrypted file to which you do not have the key (or indeed cryptographically random data) is a dangerous thing to have in the UK.

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$ openssl rand 1000 > myfile.bin

I'm at risk now, better remove that file? 🙃

@Dragon @neil

@eliasr @ret @Dragon @neil omg what I am going to do with this /dev/random file? Cant remove it!

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