If encryption is illegal, you are suspected of having to encrypted data and don't provide the keys, the police won't be puzzling about what's random or encrypted bytes: they'll interrogate you, abuse you and throw you into jail.
There is no law in the UK making it illegal to possess random data. And I strongly encourage other people to use the "dd" command and create some large random files on their own computer, themselves. It's a perfectly legal form of protest. The more people that do so, the less these key disclosure laws can be enforced?
In fact it would be really nice if Android smartphones, when encryption is enabled, fill up all the unused space with random data. I wonder if they do that already or not?
Even better would be have the operating systems fill up the unused space with random data upon partitioning the disk, by default. SSDs are very fast nowadays so it doesn't really take too much time to do so.
This random data filling could even be implemented by SSD controller firmware. Any SSD firmware developers here, please consider doing this by default, as it would severely impact the ability of the government to violate our rights. If AES crypto hardware is available, just use a random key, and let the hardware generate a stream of encrypted zeros.
Also if you run a Web site, you can generate chunks of random data dynamically each time and serve it up to the users. That way it will end up being stored in peoples' browser caches worldwide. Even a couple of kilobytes at a time would be fine. This can be embedded in HTML files, added as dummy data in video files, music files, JPEG, PNG, etc. Again, this is all perfectly legal to do. Transmission and possession of random data is not illegal.
So anywhere you can, if it's cheap to do, don't pad it with zeros, pad it with random numbers instead! You can even do it with RAM, because it will likely end up in the swap space at some point.
When nearly every computer or embedded device out there contains large quantities of random data on it's disk, these "key disclosure laws" will be rendered completely useless.
But I strongly doubt it's illegal to cause thousands or even millions of computers to have random data in their browser caches, as long as no hacking takes place? Just by padding files with dynamically generated random data, as I described above?
We could write software to do this, and people can install it on their web servers, as a means of protest?
They’ll be interrogating and torturing suspected individuals, but the ability to perform dragnet surveillance or steal your data without a warrant would be curtailed. The comic mocks encryption advocates but portrays a return to old school police work necessarily limited in scope, which is what we want.
If encryption is illegal, you are suspected of having to encrypted data and don't provide the keys, the police won't be puzzling about what's random or encrypted bytes: they'll interrogate you, abuse you and throw you into jail.