Bank fraud programme

[Ian Batten]

1.  If you had to log on to iPlayer using personal credentials, a lot  
of people who subscribe to this list would be the first to complain  
about having their television usage tracked.

2.  If iPlayer were made available outside the UK without even the  
semblance of control, a large portion of the content would disappear,  
because the BBC don't hold the rights.  The obvious example is almost  
all sports coverage, but it would also apply to almost all non-UK drama.

3.  Before the advent of iPlayer, the situation you describe was  
universal.

4.  The solution is straight-forward anyway: ssh into your home  
network and port-forward to your home squid server.  Works for me.

ian

On 28 Oct 2009, at 02:44, Tom Thomson wrote:

> Sorry, this is off topic.  But Ross's remark is so provocative (not  
> his fault - blame the BBC) that I have to RANT.
>
> No, most people outside the region still can't get it.
>
> I happen to be in Spain at the moment, so I can't get it.
>
> I couldn't get it in Beirut, either, or in Tamil Nadu, which are the  
> two places I've spent a lot of time in recent years.  Or indeed  
> anywhere else (and I've been in a few other places too).
>
> It's not true that people outside the "East" region are all in  
> England, or all in GB.
>
> It pisses off those of us who pay UK TV license fees that we can't  
> get this stuff because we happen to be, for a period, elsewhere, and  
> when we get back it will probably be no longer available.  We who  
> spend significant time working abroad are clearly second rate Brits.
>
> It pisses me off too that to get BBC Alba in England I have to buy  
> FreeSat kit because the BBS can't be bothered to broadcast that  
> material on FreeView - my British but not English culture clearly  
> marks me as a second rate Brit, not a real Brit at all, so there's  
> no reason to make stuff in Gaidhlig available on FreeView - even  
> though in the opposite case 99% of Radio and TV content available in  
> Bearnaraidh is in English, the first language of 0.5% of the local  
> population.
>
> Why can't we be honest and call it the EBC instead of the BBC?  Or  
> still more accurately the EBCfNT (the English Broadcasting  
> Corporation for Non-Travellers)?
>
> M.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-bounces at chiark.greenend.org.uk [mailto:ukcrypto-bounces at chiark.greenend.org.uk 
> ] On Behalf Of Ross Anderson
> Sent: 27 October 2009 12:34
> To: ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Bank fraud programme
>
> There was a programme last night on BBC East with a segment on the  
> Jane
> Badger case - Jane was the lady who was prosecuted for attemtped fraud
> after she complained about phantom withdrawals from her Egg card. Now
> it's in the past, people outside the region can get it via iPlayer:
>
>  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nkwqw/Inside_Out_East_26_10_2009/
>
> Trailer:
>
>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/8325477.stm
>
> Ross
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