What do you think about communications data collection and storage?

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue, 5 May 2009 16:23:53 +0100


In article <C239B346-1825-4091-BF59-6F111ECCB281@st-kilda.org>, Fearghas 
McKay <fm-lists@st-kilda.org> writes
>> This all seems to be "fighting the last war but two". I thought you 
>>were talking about clock drift in millisecends, not minutes. And who 
>>accesses the Internet by dynamic-IP dialup any more?
>
>Mobile 3G/GPRS users do.

Mine is behind a NAT, but I don't have any reason to believe their 
clocks are so far out that traceability would suffer (obviously the 
telco will still have to do the lookup of who was online at that moment, 
just like they have to do with traditional dynamic-IP modem pools).
-- 
Roland Perry