Giel Mans, a diamond-dealer suspected of luring investors with the promise of riches from profiting from diamond investments, pleaded with a Port Elizabeth Magistrate judge to release him on bail, telling the judge that a safe-deposit box in London contained diamonds worth millions of dollars that could be used to repay his investors.
For instance, requiring encryption software and hardware makers to hold a decoding key in "key escrow" is the equivalent of asking a bank to hold an extra set of safe-deposit-box keys.