Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
> news:48f37469@news.povray.org...
> >  Still doesn't prove that you have encrypted files. You could simply say
> > that you installed it a long time ago just to see how it works, or 
> > whatever.

> Ah, see, that'd be lying.

  I think that even from a moral point of view honesty does not require
you to divulge everything you do just because you are asked. There is this
thing called privacy, and people are entitled to it. What you want to hide
might not be anything illegal, but it can still be embarrassing, and nobody
should be forced to divulge anything they don't want to, not from a legal
nor from a moral point of view.

  Sure, sometimes the right to privacy may be abused to hide illegal material
(eg. child porn or terrorist plans), but I still don't think that privacy
should be lifted from everybody simply because a few individuals abuse it
to hide illegal material. Nobody should be forced to reveal encryption keys
simply because they *might* be hiding something illegal. That's a very
dangerous road which we don't want to follow.

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                                                          - Warp

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