Mastering the Internet

[ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk]

Quoting Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk>:

[snip]

> Moreover, even GCHQ cannot intercept without a warrant, which for  
> domestic communications (those not going to or from someone outside  
> the UK), must be only for communications to/from a specific person  
> or premises which must be mentioned by name therein, and which must  
> be signed by the hand of the relevant Secretary of State.

That was the point of having 5 countries as part of Echelon.  We ask  
the Americans to spy on our citizens, they ask us to spy on theirs.   
We hope they won't steal commercial aerospace secrets while they're  
doing it.