Government black boxes will 'collect every email'

ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:16:19 +0000


Quoting Chris Edwards <chris@eng.gla.ac.uk>:

> "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"

Hasn't that equipment already been introduced, with ECHELON?  The  
statement makes no mention of "no intention to upgrade monitoring . . ."