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From: "Sean Gibbins" <sean@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 8:47 AM
Subject: [Hampshire] [Chat] Another brick in the wall
> The BBC are reporting that the law requiring all ISPs to keep a copy of
> the headers of all emails passing through their email servers is being :
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7819230.stm
>
> Apparently 'small ISPs' are exempt, along with, presumably, private
> individuals.
>
> Presumably the terrorists, paedophiles and organised criminals won't
> know this and the huge effort and investment required to implement it,
> along with the further erosion of our rights, will all be worthwhile.
>
> Reading on down the article there are similar plans for SMS messages
> too, although for some reason the Post Office will not be required to
> open each and every letter and keep a record of who sent it, who it was
> too, when it was written, etc. Oddly inconsistent that..
>
> Am I right in thinking that someone once said that we get the government
> we deserve?
>
> Sean
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Out of interest (and showing my ignorance perhaps) why are they collecting
from all ISPs - why not just collect from the sender's ISP? Surely this
will just create 20 lines of data (one per hop) for every email sent?
I must admit that I shudder whenever I hear about government IT projects.
I have some experience of the way IT is approached by the "top of the
office" in Whitehall and it is truly remarkable how much ignorance there is.
That's why government IT projects involve so many different groups and the
end up with massive communication problems keeping everyone informed.
Hence they're slow and things get missed in an effort to cover every base.
The only redeeming factor (if that's the right phrase) is that nobody does
IT on the scale that govt do - but that's no excuse IMHO: privacy is
privacy.
Cheers
Rob
