Ironing out the flaws in RIP

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <ItW1uVnw5bFIFARQ@perry.co.uk>, Roland Perry <lists@internetp
olicyagency.com> writes

>>Has anyone seen any signs of the Home Office ironing out these flaws? I
>>haven't noticed any, but it is perfectly possible that I have not
>>noticed something. Any concrete examples?
>
>        "Richard Clayton, a computer security expert at the Cambridge
>        University Computer Laboratory, said this [August 2006] draft
>        version of the new code improves the definition of
>        communications data, which includes the likes of addresses and
>        dates, as opposed to content of messages, and ends legacy powers
>        used by some public authorities outside Ripa. Furthermore, it is
>        public, unlike the previous manual which was used by the police
>        from 2003 but never openly published."

I had one slide on the good bits...  and five on problems!  so this
isn't quite the gloss I'd have put on it :)

>Scrambling for Safety 8.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/talks/060814-sfs8.pdf

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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