Warp wrote:
>   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.

	I wish the law agreed with you. As it is, for people like me, getting
caught lying would put me in much more trouble (jail time) than losing
my privacy, or getting in trouble with anything I currently have to hide
(i.e. not much).

-- 
"I think not," said Descartes, and promptly disappeared.


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