EU Draft Digital Signature Directive

[Brown, R Ken]

> Ian G Batten[SMTP:I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk] wrote (amongst other things):
> 
> It would be interesting to know what would happen to 
> crime, international or not, were half a billion pounds 
> to be put into conventional policing by well-trained 
> people recruited for the task, rather than James Bond
> wannabes still fighting the war against communist
> subversion.

I don't know what would happen to crime (if I wanted to
spend government money on reducing crime I'd spend it 
on streetlights, traffic-calming, cheap & clean public transport 
and  finding useful things for teenagers to do - but I suppose 
I must be Old Labour -:)  But if GCHQ were to have its  budget
cut by 500 million it would probably still be the second
largest eavesdropping organisation in the world.

Ken  & the disclaimers.