Government black boxes will 'collect every email'

[Caspar Bowden]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk [mailto:ukcrypto-
> admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of 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
>

For an up to date picture of how things have changed since ECHELON, recomme=
nd http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Factory-Ultra-Secret-Eavesdropping-America/=
dp/0385521324

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Caspar Bowden