Schneier on Security: UK Police and Encryption: "On Channel 4 News today, Sir Ian Blair was asked why the police wanted to extend the time they could hold someone without charges from 14 days to 3 months. Part of his answer was that they sometimes needed to access encrypted computer files and 14 days was not enough time for them to break the encryption.

There's something fishy going on here."

(Via Schneier on Security.)