Government black boxes will 'collect every email'

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <Pine.SOC.4.64.0811051254220.509@bowling.cent.gla.ac.uk>,
Chris Edwards <chris@eng.gla.ac.uk> writes

>Kinda looks like they mean email traffic data:

the bit about the black boxes shows that they mean ALL traffic data

>"database holding information about every phone call, email and internet 
>visit"
>
>"it is not their intention to introduce monitoring or storage equipment 
>that will check or hold the content of emails or phonecalls on the 
>traffic"

as we've discussed here before, what's content at one level of the stack
is traffic data at the next one .... so provided your "black boxes" are
able to pick protocols apart it's "turtles all the way down"

encryption will limit how far you can go... but (again as discussed
here) a great deal of traffic is not encrypted, and the incentives to
change this are not huge.

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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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