What do you think about communications data collection and storage?

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Roland Perry wrote:
> And who accesses 
> the Internet by dynamic-IP dialup any more?

An absurdly high proportion of the computers sending packets 
that get blocked by our edge firewall, apparently probing the 
same IP port on the all the addresses in a /24 subnet one at a 
time.

If we could wave a magic wand and remove all modem/dialup IP 
access in the world tomorrow we'd lose connectivity to maybe one 
member of staff but cut out a quarter of the spam and the probes 
and shit.  (If we could remove Korean and German high schools 
we'd probably lose another quarter)