Government black boxes will 'collect every email'

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <A346B59EC8EB4E29B85D45601CFD5378@Powerstation>, M J D Brown
<mjdb@dorevale.demon.co.uk> writes

>On 5 Nov 2008 at 12:53, Chris Edwards wrote:
>
>> "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"
>
>That sounds like senior Whitehall-speak for: "We have not yet got the 
>provision of monitoring or storage equipment into the Departmental Long 
>Term Costings".

the Home Office have been briefing various journalists over the past few
days....

... the Sunday Telegraph believes that these boxes will need to be
"intercept-as-evidence ready"...

<URL:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/340
6507/Home-Office-database-is-a-step-towards-use-of-phone-tap-evidence-
in-court.html>

... it doesn't seem entirely likely to me that a system which is overt
and whose traffic can be cheaply returned to a central site over the
Internet is especially suitable for interception (as we know it today)
where the requirements list includes things like it being impossible to
tell whether anyone is being monitored; who is being monitored; and who
is doing the monitoring...  [viz: the systems are not overt and deliver
their results over private networks...]

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richard                                                   Richard Clayton

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary 
Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755

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