Interception Modernisation Programme

[Chris Edwards]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Richard Clayton wrote:

| Depends if you think that DPI is "interception"...
| 
| ... and what you actually mean by "traffic data" :)

And that there's more than one way to obtain "traffic data".

I had assumed the orig plan (to quote your mail from July...) whereby 
"all of the communications data is swept into central warehouses" would 
involve ISPs somehow uploading copies of e.g their email logs.  In the 
same way, the world of warcraft operators could presumably upload virtual 
world coordinates quite easily, if required to do so, as this info is 
easily to hand at the higher levels.

But now it sounds like a plan for black boxes which obtain the same info 
as in email logs (or virtual world coordinates) but this time by sniffing.