RIP "consultation"

[David Hansen]

<http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2009-ripa> has a document 
one may download.

The closing date is 10 July 2009.

There is a "Draft Code of Practice on Covert Surveillance and Property 
Interference" in it.

No Egg Marketing Board/Inspectorate to laugh at on a quick skim, but 
hopefully there will be something equally ridiculous to provide light 
relief.

The Home Office didn't listen [1] when it introduced this steaming pile 
of manure. I wonder if there is any point wasting time reading and 
replying to this "consultation"? The system is broken, instead of 
trying to fix it perhaps it is more profitable to ignore it.


[1] didn't listen to the voice of reason. Obviously they listend to 
those who were pulling their strings. From memory the infamous phrase 
in the report by one of the Huttons was something like, "The Security 
Service welcomes RIPA, having played a large part in writing it." It 
was such an outrageous sentence that it is seared in my memory, yet the 
Hutton was so Hutton like that he appeared unable to see anything wrong 
with it.




-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54