Government black boxes will 'collect every email'

[Roland Perry]

In article 
<732076a80811061009g348393fbh4363135d3cd27341@mail.gmail.com>, Benjamin 
Donnachie <benjamin@py-soft.co.uk> writes
>Echelon, if it ever existed, does not involve equipment installed at UK 
>ISPs.
>
>The Australian Government admitted its existence in 1999 - 
>seehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/503224.stm

That's a bunch of hogwash, one simple way of confirming it is that only 
a tiny fraction of phone calls and emails (even international ones) 
would have been transmitted by satellite links in 1999. The "every 
single email anywhere on the planet" is a bit of a give-away too. Black 
boxes in every ISP in the world??
-- 
Roland Perry