FW: [Apc-euroir-ws] "RIP Act" could result in massive surveillance -- BBC

[Caspar Bowden]

> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of=20
> Roland Perry

> > No, those routers are no closer than the ISP's end of the
> > tail from the ISP to LINX, and could well be further inside=20
> > the ISP's IP cloud than that.

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> Bowden <cb@fipr.org> writes
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> Yes, I give in, that's true. However LINX is still the=20
> biggest bang per buck tap point in UK.

Never occurred to me before. Does LINX in fact fall outside definition
of those that can be required to install a black-box under S.12 ?
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2.1 "public telecommunications service" means any telecommunications
service which is offered or provided to, or to a substantial section of,
the public in any one or more parts of the United Kingdom;

12.(1) The Secretary of State may by order provide for the imposition by
him on persons who-=20
    (a) are providing public postal services or public
telecommunications services, or=20

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