Home Office data grab

David Hansen ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu, 22 May 2008 17:10:04 +0100


On 22 May 2008 at 16:47, ken wrote:

> When I first saw that the "Stop Common Purpose" link in that 
> spam I thought it was the website of some sort of looney, but 
> now I'm pretty sure its a joke.  An apparently right-wing spoof 
> of the sort of left-wing conspiracy theory that likes to think 
> we are all being controlled by Bilderberg or the Tripartite Plot 
> or whatever.

Unfortunately it is not a joke. A number of people are beavering away 
on the Common Purpose "conspiracy", rather than applying their efforts 
to real conspiracies. They pop up from time to time, at the moment they 
are demanding the names of all Common Purpose students from public 
sector organisations via FOI.





-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54