Government black boxes will 'collect every email'

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:35:11 +0000


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<732076a80811070312w3c06db2drb46bdebadabcf0a1@mail.gmail.com>, Benjamin 
Donnachie <benjamin@py-soft.co.uk> writes
>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??
>
>Are you suggesting, heaven forbid, that the BBC might have... well... 
>"sexed it up"

Someone has, not necessarily the BBC.
-- 
Roland Perry