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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:31:16AM +0100, Simon Williams wrote: > Neil Stone wrote: > > http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/10/15/2222209.shtml > > > > "The Communications Data Bill (2008) will lead to the creation of a > > single, centralized database containing records of all e-mails sent, > > websites visited and mobile phones used by UK citizens. In a > > carnivore-on-steroids programme, as all vestiges of communication > > privacy are stripped away, The BBC reports that Home Secretary Jacqui > > Smith says this is a 'necessity.'" > > How exactly are they planning to do this? People encrypt mail. So they > don't just need every ISP, they need all mail providers- and not just > major mail providers like gmail, etc, they need all private mail servers > as well. Even *I* have a mail server. > 1/ Most people do not send mail using secure smtp / secure imap, so even if the content is encrypted the sender and recipient addresses are not Similarly most non- voip phone calls are made to a landline. (I have only seen one retail provider so far offering pgpfone with voip: www.tivi.com.) And finally most people browse the web from either their home or office 2/ This is what the Bill creates: a database of who communicates with who. Not what they are saying. ie if you send a lot of emails to a particular person who is then deemed to be a terrorist then you will be of interest to the anti-terrorist police as well. At that point then presumably the police will then look more carefully at you. 3/ Problems: - a terrorist who is otherwise normal but plans and communicates with other terrorists on a secure link - a terrorist group who buys access to a bot-net and communicates that way. ie this Bill will weed out the stupid wannabe terrorists but not touch the more dangerous ones -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. Electronic documents (including email) are binding if digitally signed and appropriately verified Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Sat Oct 25 10:55:40 BST 2008
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