ZDNet UK 26/10/2001: "Home Office admits data retention plans"

[Caspar Bowden]

> Owen Blacker
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> I reckon, thus, that Caspar's estimate for pages is ~roughly~=20
> right, but would produce traffic logs of the order of those=20
> Ben Laurie was suggesting.

Yes, and we already tackled this earlier in the thread (which evidently
Nigel did not read) - see below and replies following

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> Caspar Bowden
> Sent: 27 October 2001 19:37
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: RE: ZDNet UK 26/10/2001: "Home Office admits data=20
> retention plans"
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> > Richard Clayton
> ...
> > You should look a little closer at the content of the=20
> average web page
> > (hint: count the number of items ... for example the front
> > page of BBC News Online currently has 121 separate IMG items on it).
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> Yes, I do realise that, but I suspect even the Home Office=20
> will be capable of posing the question whether it isn't=20
> fairly trivial to log the URL of the "main" page accessed (I=20
> can three of two ways
> immediately)
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