Which is precisely why the government in the UK added encryption sections into the RIPA acts http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_P... people who fail to hand over keys to encryption can face a prison sentence. The rather obvious flaw in this is that people routinely forget their passwords and the prosecution have to prove intent.
Yet the UK has successfully obtained convictions for failing to hand over passwords - and the UK legal system hasn't yet been compromised to the level of ignoring reasonable doubt.
The majority of people who receive such notices hand over their decryption keys. Because the UK requires such notices only be made after consulting with specialists - it isn't like some random cop makes the requirement on their own. Those specialists can determine things like the likelihood of the "I forgot" defence working.
It should be fairly easy to come up with scenarios where claiming a forgotten password is unlikely. Especially if it is a case of the key being used regularly, for instance whole drive encryption, or one key for all email encryption. Then they're not claiming they forgot the key at some point - they're claiming they forgot it at the very moment the police came knocking. Because otherwise they'd have to claim they've been sitting on a bricked computer, or unusable email account. Which becomes even harder if you can show emails having been sent from that account up until a certain point in time.
Remember criminals tend not to be the smartest cookies running state of the art encryption with deniable characteristics etc.
First off you say this was an emotional case to sell a book, you then use an emotional case to justify the Dads actions.
"Perhaps his wife had just died?"
A child's early development is MASSIVELY different to that of an adult, the way they are treated at a young age acts as a template for their future relationships, habits and personality.
You cannot treat a child as if they were an adults or versions of yourself, children are continually learning how to deal with new feelings and emotions, they struggle to concentrate sometimes and are almost always aloof.
Yes children learn to manipulate, but you are the adult, deal with it, ignore their requests, remind them of your earlier conversations...
Children become a reflection of their caretakers emotions, you treat them like shit, they will argue with you more and the cycle continues...
EDIT: Downvotes? Clearly I need to explain myself better. My point is that an organization built around full transparency is indeed impervious to informants. Take the government, for example. If they had made public that they'd be monitoring our Gmail conversations for our own safety, we may have agreed or disagreed with the policy but there would be nothing to leak.
It is somewhat like reading a magazine before you actually submit an article for publication. Many new users don't bother reading through some of the upvoted questions in the category they are seeking help on and hence never bother understanding what makes a good question. However, it is true that some of the users are brutal towards new users and downvote and move on without ever going back to see if the question was ever improved. It takes an even understanding on both sides to provide a meaningful -- and sometimes enlightening -- experience.
Nothing compares to the downvoting going on over at english.stack... Jesus, you better have perfect English if you want anything other than a negative rep.
Unfortunately, the desire to keep historical buildings conflict with the need to add density. Clearly, people should make some tradeoff, but it should not be "never demolish any old buildings".
Paris doesn't really need to add density, it's already one of the densest cities in Europe. Clearly some other phenomenon is at work here.
Very tall residential buildings have surprisingly low densities for a wide variety of reasons: extra building infrastructure, high capital costs result in expensive apartments which price them out of most people's means so they end up being sold to the rich who can afford to pay twice as much anyways for more floor space, etc.
If you propose a building in London that would obstruct the view of St Pauls Cathedral for someone many miles away, that can be grounds to have your application denied:
It would seem that no one has addressed the idea that maybe the product doesn't hold enough value to the user to continue after a trial, I really don't think these sorts of metrics are applicable unless both the business model and the product are virually idential to his.
There are too many factors to consider, what is the product? being the most important, how is it sold to me, what is the closing process?
What this post says to me is: we want our users credit card details because there is a likelyhood they will forget to cancel their trial and we will at least screw them out of one month subs.
I purchased a car once, because someone told me that I'd spend 15k on coffee in my lifetime. As I drove away I realized I had been had. I don't drink coffee. (This was all a lie, I don't have a car and I drink too much coffee).
My first though when I saw this question was "Please let the law of headlines be wrong". I'm a co-founder with two babies. Its hard but not impossible, having an understanding and supportive spouse is imperative.
