Mastering the Internet

[Charles Lindsey]

On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:55:45 +0100, Ian Batten <igb at batten.eu.org> wrote:

> Consider the case of the targeted, warranted interception of a single  
> named individual.  This would most likely be done by taking a feed out  
> of a roughly adjacent switch, and supplying it unmediated to a Black Box  
> which extracts the content for which the warrant has been issued.  I  
> doubt many of us would have a problem with that process, unless we want  
> to argue that no one should have their communications intercepted ever.

But it depends who has the "key" to the black box (i.e. who gets to fill  
in the parameters for the filter). It that is the ISP, then the other  
communications, even if processed, have not been 'made available' to  
outsiders.

Who actually provided the Blax Box is irrelevant (but if it said "made in  
Cheltenham" on the outside there might be an obligation on the ISP to  
exercise "due diligence" before trusting it).

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