Comments on: Home Office plans to create ‘Big brother’ database for phones calls, emails and web use http://weblog.sinteur.com/2008/05/home-office-plans-to-create-big-brother-database-for-phones-calls-emails-and-web-use/ the Daily Irrelevant Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:17:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: John http://weblog.sinteur.com/2008/05/home-office-plans-to-create-big-brother-database-for-phones-calls-emails-and-web-use/#comment-25476 John Tue, 20 May 2008 15:12:41 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=23552#comment-25476 These plans are always put together by people with no clue. Anybody who is doing something that these law enforcement agencies might be interested in would be encrypting their email (or perhaps just encoding it). And they're probably already using VoIP services for calls since those can also be encrypted, and are much harder to trace. Plans like this just affect innocent people, much like banning water bottles at the airports. And if they do implement it, they'll probably just find more people start using encryption, which makes the terrorists' traffic blend in even better. These plans are always put together by people with no clue. Anybody who is doing something that these law enforcement agencies might be interested in would be encrypting their email (or perhaps just encoding it). And they’re probably already using VoIP services for calls since those can also be encrypted, and are much harder to trace.

Plans like this just affect innocent people, much like banning water bottles at the airports. And if they do implement it, they’ll probably just find more people start using encryption, which makes the terrorists’ traffic blend in even better.

]]> By: Michael http://weblog.sinteur.com/2008/05/home-office-plans-to-create-big-brother-database-for-phones-calls-emails-and-web-use/#comment-25472 Michael Tue, 20 May 2008 10:28:33 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=23552#comment-25472 When I visited the quoted page, the top comment in the Recent comments list was " Why Are So Many Britons Emigrating?" The article about the Home Office's plans to snoop on all communications (including this one, presumably) gives a very clear answer to that question. The current Labour government of the UK seems determined to turn itself into the enemy of its citizens. When I visited the quoted page, the top comment in the Recent comments list was ” Why Are So Many Britons Emigrating?” The article about the Home Office’s plans to snoop on all communications (including this one, presumably) gives a very clear answer to that question. The current Labour government of the UK seems determined to turn itself into the enemy of its citizens.

]]> By: Roland Hesz http://weblog.sinteur.com/2008/05/home-office-plans-to-create-big-brother-database-for-phones-calls-emails-and-web-use/#comment-25470 Roland Hesz Tue, 20 May 2008 08:26:01 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=23552#comment-25470 Or simply access the records. Without asking the courts. Well, we've been there, I faintly remember the same Britain accusing the Soviet Union and the Communist countries of being "police states" and "dictatorships" for doing the same stuff. Or simply access the records. Without asking the courts.
Well, we’ve been there, I faintly remember the same Britain accusing the Soviet Union and the Communist countries of being “police states” and “dictatorships” for doing the same stuff.

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