ID cards and censorship (was DT article)

[Caspar Bowden]

> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of Q=20
> G Campbell
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> I distinguish "overt censorship" from the "covert censorship"=20
> that is permitted by RIPA and which has been carried on=20
> continuously since the last war.
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> An example of overt censorship might be the government=20
> declaring that it will "read" all e-mails and block/reroute=20
> any that might be a threat to security (whatever that might mean).

This would be permitted already (secretly) under an Intelligencse
Services Act warrant permitting "interference with property" and ISTR
some refs. to electromagnetic radiation and relation to Wireless
Telegraphy Act (anyone got a copy of that BTW - as amended (lots))
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