Comments on: New UK email law – Allowing the government to spy on us all http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/01/09/new-uk-email-law-allowing-the-government-to-spy-on-us-all/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris H http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/01/09/new-uk-email-law-allowing-the-government-to-spy-on-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-156307 Chris H Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:02:05 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=11361#comment-156307 I'm afraid that unless there is a real sustained riot by UK citizens against all this intrusion into our lives, then we will all be stuffed. The sad thing is that so many people here just lie down meekly and accept what's doled out to them, without question. We can but hope to engineer a change of government....get shot of Labour and just pray that a new party will not carry on doling out the same old thing. I can't wait to give 2 fingers to Jackie Smith. Many overseas people can't see what Brits are moaning about, but maybe they don't fully appreciate the huge obsession that our Home Office has got, over building a super-database to rule all. I’m afraid that unless there is a real sustained riot by UK citizens against all this intrusion into our lives, then we will all be stuffed. The sad thing is that so many people here just lie down meekly and accept what’s doled out to them, without question. We can but hope to engineer a change of government….get shot of Labour and just pray that a new party will not carry on doling out the same old thing. I can’t wait to give 2 fingers to Jackie Smith.
Many overseas people can’t see what Brits are moaning about, but maybe they don’t fully appreciate the huge obsession that our Home Office has got, over building a super-database to rule all.

]]> By: Rick http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/01/09/new-uk-email-law-allowing-the-government-to-spy-on-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-155476 Rick Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:49:15 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=11361#comment-155476 Using a US based server is no help. Here the government spies on us without regard to laws. I use an email service based in Panama with encrypted links so my ISP cannot see the email headers and GPG encryption so only the recipient can read the message. The service is at www.novo-ordo.com. Using a US based server is no help. Here the government spies on us without regard to laws. I use an email service based in Panama with encrypted links so my ISP cannot see the email headers and GPG encryption so only the recipient can read the message. The service is at http://www.novo-ordo.com.

]]> By: MCG http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/01/09/new-uk-email-law-allowing-the-government-to-spy-on-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-155420 MCG Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:13:02 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=11361#comment-155420 Hang on - I'd guess that most emails nowadays are sent via Gmail and Hotmail rather than ISP's naff email services. So, seeing as how Gmail and Hotmail are US companies, isn't this a gaping hole in the government's would-be Big Brother scheme?? Hang on – I’d guess that most emails nowadays are sent via Gmail and Hotmail rather than ISP’s naff email services. So, seeing as how Gmail and Hotmail are US companies, isn’t this a gaping hole in the government’s would-be Big Brother scheme??

]]> By: Ralph http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/01/09/new-uk-email-law-allowing-the-government-to-spy-on-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-155310 Ralph Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:53:40 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=11361#comment-155310 PGP anyone? PGP anyone?

]]> By: thebrix http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/01/09/new-uk-email-law-allowing-the-government-to-spy-on-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-155293 thebrix Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:41:16 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=11361#comment-155293 Same comment as on the previous story - "an EU directive", so all 27 member countries are doing more or less the same thing. Only two of them make the mistake of using English to tell the world that they are doing it! The article contradicts itself; it is the much less intrusive traffic data, not the contents of what is being carried, that is being proposed to be stored; I suspect that no current or conceivable system could do the second. Certainly a rough picture of relationships could be built up from a large amount of traffic data concerning the same person, but that would be an exercise, I suspect, requiring human analysis. Same comment as on the previous story – “an EU directive”, so all 27 member countries are doing more or less the same thing. Only two of them make the mistake of using English to tell the world that they are doing it!

The article contradicts itself; it is the much less intrusive traffic data, not the contents of what is being carried, that is being proposed to be stored; I suspect that no current or conceivable system could do the second. Certainly a rough picture of relationships could be built up from a large amount of traffic data concerning the same person, but that would be an exercise, I suspect, requiring human analysis.

]]> By: Darian http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/01/09/new-uk-email-law-allowing-the-government-to-spy-on-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-155253 Darian Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:52:56 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=11361#comment-155253 Again your a idot a Dave. Again your a idot a Dave.

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