Internet to be modernised at long last

[Caspar Bowden]

>From: Roland Perry
>He was from the police. His remark was that they didn't expect to
>intercept all emails. Which isn't the same as having the ability to
>easily intercept any carefully selected emails.

That's over-generous to John Abbott (NCIS)
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/1999-October/045755.ht=
ml
(for it was he)
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2009-January/086438.ht=
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(2000) "...Conspiracy theorists must not be allowed to get away with the ri=
diculous notion that law enforcement would or even could monitor all emails=
. The intelligence agencies have neither the inclination nor the resources,=
 nor the legal ability to monitor the massive amounts of electronic communi=
cations that flow through the UK every day. It does not happen with letters=
 or telephones and it will not with emails..."

To have the capability to "easily intercept any carefully selected emails" =
implies both would and could "monitor" - to construe monitor as meaning "co=
mprehended by a human mind comprehending" limits Abbot's supposed rebuttal =
to an absurdity.

>At worst, people are allowed to change their mind nine years later :)

The point is that the tribe of signatories to the Gaspar report has been st=
eadily trying to get there for 10-15 years (at least). They haven't changed=
 their mind - they are redoubling efforts.
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Caspar Bowden
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