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On 03/11/2012 13:47, Neil Winchurst wrote:
Basically using ISPs for evidence gathering of crimes that haven't happened yet, and may never. While I agree traffic analysis is a valuable tool - as used by MI5 in the early days of electronic snooping on foreign activity in the UK - why gather an entire estate full of gorse bushes when all you really need is one twig? Also isn't it more likely that real criminals will use encrypted traffic, VPNs etc to disguise the source and destination as well as the content? Surely the example of OBL who had no computers at all in his compound and used human couriers is a reason to doubt the efficacy of this tactic? That and the fact that an increasingly common tactic is to use the Drafts function of a webmail account, thus ensuring no direct contact between conspirators anyway.On 02/11/12 13:32, Julian Hall wrote:'Government plans to monitor all Britons' online activity will help police to infiltrate criminal gangs, Parliament is told.'The usual excuse for snooping on us. The vast majority of people in this country are law abiding. So the government want to be able to snoop on *all* internet users to give them the chance to catch the few who are criminal. And the other excuse is terrorist activity of course. Use that word and they can excuse anything is how they work it. Neil
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