BBC News - 'Fresh proposals' planned over cyber-monitoring

[Andrew Cormack]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-bounces at chiark.greenend.org.uk [mailto:ukcrypto-
> bounces at chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of Ian Batten
> Sent: 11 May 2013 15:50
> To: UK Cryptography Policy Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: BBC News - 'Fresh proposals' planned over cyber-monitoring
> 
> 
> On 10 May 2013, at 13:49, Andrew Cormack <Andrew.Cormack at ja.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > And the static mappings between port ranges and customers might
> arguably be covered by the current Data Retention Regs? And anyway
> represent only a similar volume of logs to current DHCP. That might
> explain the "may not need legislation" comment?
> 
> But surely the problem would be that the actual services don't log
> source port numbers, and therefore even if you have the NAT mappings,
> you don't know which of the users who happened to be on a particular IP
> number was the user in question without the source port?
> 
> ian
> 

Errr. Good point :-(

Andrew