RIPA Part III is now in force - is there a Section 49 Notice being served to grab your Decryption Keys ?

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October 1st 2007 is another milestone in the British State Surveillance, when some more of the authoritarian and repressive Labour Government's snooping policies come into legal force. Why were the Opposition parties so feeble and ineffective when these horribly complicated and bureaucratic yet draconian laws and secondary legislation were meant to have been properly scrutinised by Parliament ?

Firstly, Communication Traffic Data, initially for mobile phones and landline telephones and faxes etc. is to be retained by the telecommunications network providers for at least a year i.e. far longer than would otherwise be legal to do so once they have no legitimate business use for the data such itemised phone bills which have been paid.

This extension of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 Part II, which has been in force for years, will obviously take a few weeks or months to start to affect the millions of innocent people whose privacy and security is being put at risk "just in case" there may be some unspecified criminal investigation or intelligence agency snooping in the future

However, there is now a further immediate potential threat to your privacy, security and online financial transactions and money, namely Government access to encryption keys or decrypted data, under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act Part III Section 49 Disclosure Notices:

Incredibly, this bit of law, which has lain dormant on the statute books for over 7 years, was amended by the notorious Terrorism Act 2006, so that the penalty for refusing to disclose your secret cryptographic Decryption Key(s) or to provide plaintext decrypted versions of the protected data, has been increased from 2 years in prison to 5 years in prison for catch all and undefined "national security investigations". Since the penalties for terrorism or espionage are longer than this, how is this anything but gesture politics ?

There is also the provision for a "tipping off " offence, again, punishable by up to 5 years in prison, if the law enforcement or intelligence agency bureaucrats tick the "secrecy" box on the still as yet undefined format of a Section 49 Notice demanding your cryptographic keys etc.

It sjhould also be remembered that RIPA Part III also makes the Police or Intelligence Agenciy staff legally liable for breaches of the security of seized cryptographic keys or the protected material disclosed under a Section 49 order.

Even though our good advice during the alleged public consultation on the Code of Practice last year has been ignored, we still feel that is is vital that any such cryptographic keys and / or protected plaintext data should itself be encrypted using UK Government approved cryptography or even reasonable commercially or freely available cryptography, especially when on removable media or laptop computers or when transfered via the internet or WiFi etc

If there are any lost or stolen or computer malware infected laptop computers or removable media or USB flash memory devices or plaintext email attachments or data transfers or data backups etc, then those individuals responsible and their bosses, should be prosecuted for malfeasance in public office, and be made to pay financial compensation and damages to anyone whose innocent data, intellectual property or electronic money etc. has been compromised or put at risk.

If, say, the private encryption key for the SSL / TLS Digital Certificate for an e-commerce or internet banking website is compromised by negligent data handling following a RIPA Section 49 Notice, then the amount of damages which a Court might award could run into millions of pounds.

See our sub-blog published last summer during the so called public consultation process on the Code of Practice for RIPA Part III

Please contact us if you are served with a RIPA Section 49 notice, (obviously not if it has a secrecy rider), as we would like to be able to recognise a genuine one, to differentiate it from the inevitable "phishing" scams which will seek to exploit the secrecy and unfamiliarity of the public and commercial with such Notices.

We demand that the RIPA Commissioners, the Home Office and the supposed Single Point of Contact, the National Technical Assistance Centre (now under the management of GCHQ and the Foreign Office) should keep records of, and provide a breakdown of the actual numbers of RIPA Section 49 Notices which have been served. These figures should include how many Section 49 Notices have the "tipping off" secrecy requirement, and how many, according to the Code of Practice, have required that the Financial Services Authority be informed (e.g. when obtaining financial services cryptographic keys).



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Now I have become very confused. Does this recording and holding of communications data apply only to outgoing calls? Or are they having to collect incoming call information as well? Even though there is absolutely no business need to collect such information for landline calls.

@ Yokel - yes it does. There is no "business case" for any of the following data to be retained for a year, especially after the bills have been paid ok, so it all would have been illegal under the data Protection Act principle of no excessive storage or processing, hence the new legislation.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/20072199.htm

Data to be retained 5. —(1) The following data concerning fixed network telephony and mobile telephony generated in the United Kingdom must be retained in accordance with regulation 4(1):

(a) the telephone number from which the telephone call was made and the name and address of the subscriber and registered user of that telephone;

(b) the telephone number dialled and, in cases involving supplementary services such as call forwarding or call transfer, any telephone number to which the call is forwarded or transferred, and the name and address of the subscriber and registered user of such telephone;

(c) the date and time of the start and end of the call; and

(d) the telephone service used.

(2) The following data concerning mobile telephony must be retained in accordance with regulation 4(1):

(a) the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) and the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) of the telephone from which a telephone call is made;

(b) the IMSI and the IMEI of the telephone dialled;

(c) in the case of pre-paid anonymous services, the date and time of the initial activation of the service and the cell ID from which the service was activated;

(d) the cell ID at the start of the communication; and

(e) data identifying the geographic location of cells by reference to their cell ID.

They (i.e. the UK Labour Government during their presisdency of the European Union when they pushed this onto the rest of the European Union) also wanted this data to include "uncompleted calls" as well - everyone (not just criminal suspects under active investigation) seems to be suspected of sending a covert subliminal channel signal by, say, hanging up after three rings, without the other party actually picking up the handset, rather than the vast majority of cases where this is simply due to a human or technical error.

That provision seems to have been lost, in what may be the only small victory for common sense during the passage through the European Parliament.

Remember that there is other Communications Traffic Data wich can be obtained under RIPA, which may or may not be available for a year after the call has been made.

Internet and VOIP telephony Communications Traffic Data is planned to be similarly retained from 2009.

TrueCrypt thrawts RIPA III

The UK government is going to deprive honest an law-abiding citizens of their liberties while criminals can carry on theirs businesses as usual, with just a little software upgrade.

Free software like TrueCrypt can conceal encrypted material in a way that prevent its detection.

In case the Police forces you to reveal your password, TrueCrypt provides and supports two kinds of "plausible deniability":

1. Hidden volumes. The principle is that a TrueCrypt volume is created within another TrueCrypt volume (within the free space on the volume). Even when the outer volume is mounted, it is impossible to prove whether there is a hidden volume within it or not, because free space on any TrueCrypt volume is always filled with random data when the volume is created* and no part of the (dismounted) hidden volume can be distinguished from random data. Note that TrueCrypt does not modify the file system (information about free space, etc.) within the outer volume in any way.

2. It is impossible to identify a TrueCrypt volume. Until decrypted, a TrueCrypt volume appears to consist of nothing more than random data (it does not contain any kind of "signature"). Therefore, it is impossible to prove that a file, a partition or a device is a TrueCrypt volume or that it has been encrypted.

FreeOTFE also offers similar features.

Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging, offers true deniability for instant messaging.

TrueCrypt's "aleatory" defence against RIPA

TrueCrypt provides an "aleatory" defence against RIPA, and, indeed, against any similar legislation. This defence works because TrueCrypt makes encrypted material indistinguishable from pseudo-random data. And before the authorities can insist that you hand over an encryption key, they would first be obliged to prove to the satisfaction of a court that you were in possession of encrypted material. Depending on how TrueCrypt is set up it might be obvious that you have some pseudo-random data in an atypical location on your computer, and you might well be asked how it got there. Now, there are many computer processes that produce pseudo-random data, and you are not obliged by the legislation to account for the origins of every file on your computer that contains such data given the tens of thousands of files on the average PC this would be an impossible task. However, TrueCrypt can also provide you with an excellent and highly plausible reason as to why you possess such a file of pseudo-random data irrespective of where it is found.

Off-the-Record Messaging, commonly referred to as OTR, is a cryptographic protocol that provides strong encryption for instant messaging conversations. OTR provides perfect forward secrecy and deniable encryption.

1. Perfect forward secrecy: Messages are only encrypted with temporary per-message AES keys, negotiated using the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol. The compromise of any long-lived cryptographic keys does not compromise any previous conversations, even if an attacker is in possession of ciphertexts.

2. Deniable authentication: Messages in a conversation do not have digital signatures, and after a conversation is complete, anyone is able to forge a message to appear to have come from one of the participants in the conversation, assuring that it is impossible to prove that a specific message came from a specific person.

DriveCrypt Plus Pack and "plausible deniability"?

I believe it may also be possible to use DriveCrypt Plus Pack to achieve "plausible deniability"

DCPP is supposed to enable the user to hide an entire operating system inside the free disk space of another operating system. Two passwords are required: One password is for the visible operating system, the other for the invisible one. The first "fake" password grants access to a pre-configured operating system (outer OS), while the other gives grants access to the real working operating system. This functionality is extremely useful if the user fears that someone may force them to provide the DCPP password; in this case, the user simply gives away the first (fake) password so that the snoop will be able to boot into the system, but only see the prepared information that they wishes them to find. The attacker will not be able to see any confidential and personal data and he will also not be able to understand that the machine is storing one more hidden operating system. On the other hand, if the user enters the private password (for the invisible disk), the system will boot a different operating system (the working system) giving the user the access to all the confidential data.

The creation of a hidden operating system is not obligatory and as such, it is not possible for anyone who does not have the hidden OS password to know or find out, if a hidden operating system exists or not.

@ Anon - regarding "Off-the-Record Messaging" what is the difference between "deniable authentication" and "plaintext" i.e. no encryption or digital signature at all ?

4 persone will left the oman(jordan) airprt today are next this 3girle s and 1 man they going to europe uk fisrt and the man is ahmad sadek ibrahem he contact with terroriest organzation .he unlegal.

So, being in possession of a random sequence (theoretically indistinguishable from an encrypted message) puts me at risk of serving 5 years?

Even worse actually.
If they find random data in my hard disk and I cannot convince the court that it's not what they think it is, I get 5 years.
If I fail to convince the court that I genuinely forgot the password, I get 5 years.
If a terrorist can convince the court that the encrypted instructions for an attack is just random noise, he is unaffected by this legislation.

What a bunch of clowns.

There's a posting on indymedia from someone who claims to have been required to reveal encryption keys: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/385589.html

There is a discussion thread entitled "RIP in action" about some of the issues raised in this Indymedia report on the UK Crypto email list.

FreeOTFE and FreeOTFE4PDA v3.00 released (16th December 2007)

WWhile remaining easy to use, FreeOTFE's features list includes:

* Source code freely available
* Easy to use; full wizard included for creating new volumes
* Data encrypted on your PC can be read/written on your PDA, and vice versa
* Powerful: Supports numerous hash/encryption algorithms, and provides a greater level of flexibility than a number of other (including commercial!) OTFE systems
* Hash algorithms include: MD5, SHA-512, RIPEMD-160, Tiger and many more
* Cyphers include AES (256 bit), Twofish (256 bit), Blowfish (448 bit), Serpent (256 bit) and many more
* Cypher modes supported include CBC, LRW and XTS (including XTS-AES-128 and XTS-AES-256)
* "Portable mode" included; FreeOTFE doesn't need to be installed before it can be used - making it ideal for carrying your data securely on USB drives!
* Operates under both PC (MS Windows 2000/XP) and PDA (Windows Mobile 2003/2005 and Windows Mobile 6) platforms
* Linux compatibility (Cryptoloop "losetup", dm-crypt and LUKS supported)
* "Hidden" volumes may be concealed within other FreeOTFE volumes, providing "plausible deniability"
* FreeOTFE volumes have no "signature" to allow them to be identified as such
* Encrypted volumes can be either file or partition based.
* Modular design allowing 3rd party drivers to be created, incorporating new hash/cypher algorithms
* Decryption software available to improve transparency, and allow even the most junior software engineer to prove data is being encrypted correctly
* Supports password salting (up to 512 bits), reducing the risks presented by dictionary attacks.
* Allows users to backup and restore the critical areas of volume files.
* Keyfile support included; store volumes and their associated metadata separately.
* Uses per-sector IVs, including support for ESSIV
* Volume file timestamps and attributes are reset after dismounting, increasing "plausible deniability"
* Supports volumes files up to 2^63 bytes (8388608 TB)
* Naturally, fully supported by SecureTrayUtil.
* Plus more...!

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World's First Fascist Democracy - blog with link to a Google map - "This map is an attempt to take a UK wide, geographical view, of both the public and the personal effect of State sponsored fear and distrust as seen through the twisted technological lens of petty officials and would be bureaucrats nationwide."

Blogoir - Charles Crawford - former UK Ambassodor to Poland etc.

No CCTV - The Campaign against CCTV

Barcode Nation - keeping two eyes on the database state.

Lords of the Blog - group blog by half a dozen or so Peers sitting in the House of Lords.

notes from the ubiquitous surveillance society - blog by Dr. David Murakami Wood, editor of the online academic journal Surveillance and Society

Justin Wylie's political blog

Panopticon blog - by Timothy Pitt-Payne and Anya Proops. Timothy Pitt-Payne is probably the leading legal expert on the UK's Freedom of Information Act law, often appearing on behlaf of the Information Commissioner's Office at the Information Tribunal.

Armed and Dangerous - Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life’s simple pleasures… - by Open Source Software advocate Eric S. Raymond.

Georgetown Security Law Brief - group blog by the Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law , at Georgtown University, Washington D.C, USA.

Big Brother Watch - well connected with the mainstream media, this is a campaign blog by the TaxPayersAlliance, which thankfully does not seem to have spawned Yet Another Campaign Organisation as many Civil Liberties groups had feared.

Spy on Moseley - "Sparkbrook, Springfield, Washwood Heath and Bordesley Green. An MI5 Intelligence-gathering operation to spy on Muslim communities in Birmingham is taking liberties in every sense" - about 150 ANPR CCTV cameras funded by Home Office via the secretive Terrorism and Allied Matters (TAM) section of ACPO.

FitWatch blog - keeps an eye on the activities of some of the controversial Police Forward Intelligence Teams, who supposedly only target "known troublemakers" for photo and video surveillance, at otherwise legal, peaceful protests and demonstrations.

Other Links

Spam Huntress - The Norwegian Spam Huntress - Ann Elisabeth

Fuel Crisis Blog - Petrol over £1 per litre ! Protest !
Mayor of London Blog
London Olympics 2012 - NO !!!!

Cool Britannia

NuLabour

Free Gary McKinnon - UK citizen facing extradition to the USA for "hacking" over 90 US Military computer systems.

Parliament Protest - information and discussion on peaceful resistance to the arbitrary curtailment of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, in the excessive Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 Designated Area around Parliament Square in London.

Brian Burnell's British / US nuclear weapons history at http://nuclear-weapons.info

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UK Legislation

The United Kingdom suffers from tens of thousands of pages of complicated criminal laws, and thousands of new, often unenforceable criminal offences, which have been created as a "Pretend to be Seen to Be Doing Something" response to tabloid media hype and hysteria, and political social engineering dogmas. These overbroad, catch-all laws, which remove the scope for any judicial appeals process, have been rubber stamped, often without being read, let alone properly understood, by Members of Parliament.

The text of many of these Acts of Parliament are now online, but it is still too difficult for most people, including the police and criminal justice system, to work out the cumulative effect of all the amendments, even for the most serious offences involving national security or terrorism or serious crime.

Many MPs do not seem to bother to even to actually read the details of the legislation which they vote to inflict on us.

UK Legislation Links

UK Statute Law Database - is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online, but it is not yet up to date.

UK Commissioners

UK Commissioners some of whom are meant to protect your privacy and investigate abuses by the bureaucrats.

UK Intelligence Agencies

Intelligence and Security Committee - the supposedly independent Parliamentary watchdog which issues an annual, heavily censored Report every year or so. Currently chaired by the Conservative Sir Malcolm Rifkind. Why should either the intelligence agencies or the public trust this committee, when the untrustworthy ex-Labour Minister Hazel Blears is a member ?

Anti-terrorism hotline - links removed in protest at the Climate of Fear propaganda posters

MI5 Security Service
MI5 Security Service - links to encrypted reporting form removed in protest at the Climate of Fear propaganda posters

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Secure Your Fertiliser - advice on ammonium nitrate and urea fertiliser security

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Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure - "CPNI provides expert advice to the critical national infrastructure on physical, personnel and information security, to protect against terrorism and other threats."

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Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) recruitment.

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Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ

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National Crime Agency - the replacement for the Serious Organised Crime Agency

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Defence Advisory (DA) Notice system - voluntary self censorship by the established UK press and broadcast media regarding defence and intelligence topics via the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee.

Foreign Spies / Intelliegence Agencies in the UK

It is not just the UK government which tries to snoop on British companies, organisations and individuals, the rest of the world is constantly trying to do the same, regardless of the mixed efforts of our own UK Intelligence Agencies who are paid to supposedly protect us from them.

For no good reason, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office only keeps the current version of the London Diplomatic List of accredited Diplomats (including some Foreign Intelligence Agency operatives) online.

Presumably every mainstream media organisation, intelligence agency, serious organised crime or terrorist gang keeps historical copies, so here are some older versions of the London Diplomatic List, for the benefit of web search engine queries, for those people who do not want their visits to appear in the FCO web server logfiles or those whose censored internet feeds block access to UK Government websites.

Campaign Button Links

Watching Them, Watching Us - UK Public CCTV Surveillance Regulation Campaign
UK Public CCTV Surveillance Regulation Campaign

NO2ID Campaign - cross party opposition to the NuLabour Compulsory Biometric ID Card
NO2ID Campaign - cross party opposition to the NuLabour Compulsory Biometric ID Card and National Identity Register centralised database.

Gary McKinnon is facing extradition to the USA under the controversial Extradition Act 2003, without any prima facie evidence or charges brought against him in a UK court. Try him here in the UK, under UK law.
Gary McKinnon is facing extradition to the USA under the controversial Extradition Act 2003, without any prima facie evidence or charges brought against him in a UK court. Try him here in the UK, under UK law.

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FreeFarid.com - Kafkaesque extradition of Farid Hilali under the European Arrest Warrant to Spain

Peaceful resistance to the curtailment of our rights to Free Assembly and Free Speech in the SOCPA Designated Area around Parliament Square and beyond
Parliament Protest blog - resistance to the Designated Area restricting peaceful demonstrations or lobbying in the vicinity of Parliament.

Petition to the European Commission and European Parliament against their vague Data Retention plans
Data Retention is No Solution - Petition to the European Commission and European Parliament against their vague Data Retention plans.

Save Parliament: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (and other issues)
Save Parliament - Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (and other issues)

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Open Rights Group

The Big Opt Out Campaign - opt out of having your NHS Care Record medical records and personal details stored insecurely on a massive national centralised database.

Tor - the onion routing network
Tor - the onion routing network - "Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data or learn what sites you visit, and even the onion routers themselves."

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Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor - useful Guide published by Global Voices Advocacy with step by step software configuration screenshots (updated March 10th 2009).

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Amnesty International's irrepressible.info campaign

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BlogSafer - wiki with multilingual guides to anonymous blogging

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NGO in a box - Security Edition privacy and security software tools

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Home Office Watch blog, "a single repository of all the shambolic errors and mistakes made by the British Home Office compiled from Parliamentary Questions, news reports, and tip-offs by the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs team."

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Reporters Without Borders - Reporters Sans Frontières - campaign for journalists 'and bloggers' freedom in repressive countries and war zones.

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Committee to Protect Bloggers - "devoted to the protection of bloggers worldwide with a focus on highlighting the plight of bloggers threatened and imprisoned by their government."

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Icelanders are NOT terrorists ! - despite Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling's use of anti-terrorism legislation to seize the assets of Icelandic banks.

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No CCTV - The Campaign Against CCTV

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I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist !

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Power 2010 cross party, political reform campaign

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Cracking the Black Box - "aims to expose technology that is being used in inappropriate ways. We hope to bring together the insights of experts and whistleblowers to shine a light into the dark recesses of systems that are responsible for causing many of the privacy problems faced by millions of people."

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Open Rights Group - Petition against the renewal of the Interception Modernisation Programme

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WhistleblowersUK.org - Fighting for justice for whistleblowers