Mastering the Internet

[Adrian Midgley]

Florian Weimer wrote:

> I'm still puzzled why this is necessary.  Surely the Googles complain
> with orders to provide such data?!  Why build a competing system,
> whose more elaborate capabilities turn useless as soon as the first
> major site turns on crypto?

I may be naive but I'd assume the answer is in order to be paid for
doing so, and looking forward to being paid for redoing it.


I'm assuming it is being driven by someone who wants to build and sell
the system and has the ear of a current minister or two, rather than by
any need or de novo desire generated from government.

They may be reading the papers with a degree of alarm.