Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138

Assar Bruno Boveri writes "Swedish lawmakers came down in favour of a fiercely debated surveillance bill in a vote at the Riksdag on Wednesday evening. Despite some cosmetic changes, Sweden's proposed surveillance law is still a monster, writes Pär Ström from the independent New Welfare Foundation." The Swedish newspaper DN (in Swedish; translations welcome) compares the implications of the proposed law with activities carried out by East Germany's Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (STASI).

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[oahazmatt]

There was considerable outrage among the Swedish. One vocal protestor was quoted as stating: "B'york b'york! Mmb'york york burdy hurdy m'yurdy!"

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[everphilski]

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?
See the løveli lakes
The wonderful telephøne system
And mani interesting furry animals

Re:for those of us who can't read sweedish

[JCSoRocks]

It's also helpful for people that can't read Swedish.

Re:Sad sad sad day

[Tazor]

Maybe it is time to move to China where my rights are secure..

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[tmosley]

He's obviously a Norwegian living in Sweden, you insensitive clod!

In Soviet

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Sweden, erotica watches YOU!

Re:a href, for father Dagon's sake!

[wizardforce]

you mean you're not using the linkification extension or selecting the text and dragging it to open in a new tab?

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[irondonkey]

Including the majestic møøse

Re:Well...

[aliquis]

Ok, China here I come! :D

Re:for those of us who can't read sweedish

[Narpak]

In the interview he makes it clear that mail with encrypted contents are of special interest to the FRA. Possible terrorists would likely not use clear-text naming of where they will strike and with what sort of force. Supposedly encryption applications like PGP are hard to break but with one or more computers in the million SEK range it will be possible to break everything from encrypted love-letters to journalist correspondance with protected sources. The latter is protected by constitutional rights. FRA can not know anything about the content before the encryption is broken. Thus a catch-22 is created. In practice the constitutional paragraph regarding protection of sources worthless.

Well lets all send lots of emails encrypted with the best avalible methods, and lets make sure that the text we encrypt is just random letters and numbers. If they are going to monitor our traffic at the very least we can do our best to flood the system with crap.

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[ayjay29]

My sister got bitten by a møøse once.

Re:I foresee some interesting torrent developments

[I cant believe its n]

We are listening to your objections
Kind regards FRA - Sweden