Interception Modernisation Programme

[Roland Perry]

In article <487886BF.16805.A22E8@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen 
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes
>"The objective of the interception modernisation programme (IMP) is to
>maintain the UK's lawful intercept and communications data
>capabilities in the changing communications environment. It is a
>cross-government programme, led by the Home Office, to ensure that our
>capability to lawfully intercept and exploit data when fighting crime
>and terrorism [snip]"
>
>He is referring to systems both now and in the future. He makes the
>assertion that these things are used to fight crime.

You are misreading the statement.

"THE objective of the IMP is....

"It [will] ensure ... A and B ...."

But it will also ensure X, Y and Z.

Perhaps you disapprove of it ensuring X, Y and Z, but it's not 
misleading Parliament to leave them out.

>This is clearly a bogus claim as RIP covers much more than crime.

And he was talking about IMP, not RIP. There are plenty of things that 
we all know RIP does, that have nothing at all to do with IMP (for 
example, to get even vaguely on-Crypto-topic, requesting the encryption 
key for a seized memory stick).
-- 
Roland Perry