Scary court ruling

A Minnesota appeals court has ruled that the presence of encryption software on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.

Read more about it here, and some more commentary here. Bruce Schneier just said that he was "speechless", but there are lot of comments on his blog.

This is really scary. Considering the amount of work I've done in cryptography in the last 18 months, and the amount of crypto research material and tools on my computer, I hope I'm never accused of a crime. OTOH, at least I don't use PGP.