BAD NEWS :( Government amendments reinforce Big Browser

[David Howe]

> So the email is safe (so we are told), but the HTTP clickstream is as this
> noble Lord was previously reported as saying in Hansard. So they cannot
read
> your email withou warrant, but they can chase it's route and look at the
> headers.
Hmm. it's lucky that online Email tends to be HTTPS then yes?

> So far a surfing is concerned they can look at the entire clickstream and
> see where anybody has been and what they have requested to see, without
warrant.
Problem is, how are they going to distinguish between a GET request and any
other without looking inside the packet?

> I am not sure about usenet requests, I have not seen these mentioned
> anywhere, but it may be my ignorance of not realising they have been
mentioned.
Again, a Usenet post goes to the same port on the same server a usenet fetch
does - so they are able to look inside the envelope to check *just in case*
it is a fetch request.

> I also note the honourable Lord says he would not put certain
intepretation
> on the wording, it is difficult to see how he can do this when he has
> clearly no idea what it is he has been talking about.
Indeed - he is referring to the famous CoP that no-one has ever seen, whose
protections will be all encompassing but not actually enforced, and of
course subject to change without notification.