Administrivia: the porn and advertising thread

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From: "Richard Clayton" <richard@highwayman.com>
To: <UKcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Administrivia: the porn and advertising thread


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> In article <02042717313302.18465@comuno>, phil hunt
> <philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk> writes
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> >Two questions I'd be interested in people's views on:
> >
> >(1) if everyone starts using crypto, will it be possible to effectively
> >limit the availability of any type of matter (such as child porn, or
> >for that matter unauthorised copies of music) over the net?
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> yes ... the property that would give a problem would be anonymity. It
> doesn't really matter how much crypto there is if the source of the
> material can be traced.

Purely IMHO, that is missing the point of Crypto if used in a sensible way.
Crypto aside, Tony and folks at the NHTCU have major problems tracing back
further that 2 hops from a SLIP box on .ru, even in clear - take one prepaid
phone, one ISP in that neck of the woods, one CC generator, one liability
from said CC company and forget it.

> >(2) if the answer to the first question is "no", will the authorities
> >eventually stop trying?
>
> no ... because they would sometimes catch people - achieving perfect
> anonymity is rather hard to do.
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Agreed, the more catches that they have, the better the budget^H^H^H^H^H
justification and so it follows, 90% of the idiots will always be caught,
case proven M'Lud.   A 90% clearup rate is a major thing and quite rightly
so - caveat emptor applies as always on the recognition that you will miss
the clever ones.   In the face of parliamentary questions, 10% don't count
for shit.   There was a big piece by a Journo on the recent mega-bust
against the 'P' folks recently, all well and good but there was mention that
this was only achieved by the use of URL filtering software - bollocks.
They are not that stupid, even if all the content filtering companies are
so - to paraphrase the Bushido code, send me your best filtering software so
that I may slay it ;-)   Assuming of course that said Journo had the correct
facts to hand.... #include <unlikely.h>

Oh, and giving the likes of ColdFire and KP the Paddington Hard Stare is a
total waste of resources of a good organisation that should direct it's
efforts towards cluefull fuckwits.   Mr Gruber surely is #1 ;-)

Cheers.   (If found, please return to the nearest pub).