Every Email In UK To Be Monitored 785
ericcantona writes "The Communications Data Bill (2008) will lead to the creation of a single, centralized database containing records of all e-mails sent, websites visited and mobile phones used by UK citizens. In a carnivore-on-steroids programme, as all vestiges of communication privacy are stripped away, The BBC reports that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says this is a 'necessity.'"
Re:That's it (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck the US!
No, fuck the THEM!
Re:That's it (Score:5, Funny)
This makes me proud to be an American. (Score:5, Funny)
Joe the Plumber is laughing his ass off at you Brits.
Gotcha! (Score:5, Funny)
If you're using snail-mail you must have something to hide!
Revolution? (Score:2, Funny)
I would have thought that the British would have learned not to piss off their citizens in the late 1700s. ;-)
Morales no longer employed by UK (Score:5, Funny)
Q: Is the UK government and authorities completely without morales?
A: Lead Programmer Jose Morales left the program recently for a position at Yahoo China. Many pundits claim that without him the implementation of the Communications Data Bill will fail as no one can read his code and his commenting mostly consisted of rambling diatribes against the IMF.
Re:Unbelievable (Score:5, Funny)
Completely. And I won't hesitate to mention that if you think a Mexican could break into politics in the UK, you're raving mad.
You have suggested... (Score:5, Funny)
Your post advocates a
(*) technical (*) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting terrorism. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from dictatorship to dictatorship before a bad federal law was passed.)
(*) Terrorists can easily encrypt their email
( ) Other legitimate email users would be affected
( ) It will stop terrorists for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
[...] anybody feeling ambitious? :)
Re:This article is misleading (Score:3, Funny)
look at the positives (Score:4, Funny)
2. I'm sure it will take just a few petabytes of Viagra ads for the UK government to develop a foolproof SPAM filter for us all.
3. Just think of the decline in crap emails from management. No more wading through piles of pointless CC'd emails once they become paranoid.
4. Did someone just approve my budget for video phones for everyone? Try archiving that traffic, UK!
I think we all need to look at the glass being half full on this one
A Letter (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Gotcha! (Score:2, Funny)
True, in all these years they have never guessed I am smuggling Escargot!
Re:That's it (Score:4, Funny)
Venus! That's where I hear all the chicks are from.
Re:That's it (Score:3, Funny)
I'm out of here!
Fuck the UK!
Could you please send this comment to me by e-mail?
Re:Unbelievable (Score:4, Funny)
So what about me? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm a Dual US/UK National. Will these new wiretaps be incompatible with the preexisting NSA taps on My AT&T Cell phone?
Re:Police state bullshit. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This makes me proud to be an American. (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah it does but we did it first.
crossing the authoritarian line (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Police state bullshit. (Score:2, Funny)
hmm
bomb labor bomb labor bomb labor nsa bomb labor cigarettes bomb pentagon september 11th world trade center bomb labor bunny bomb bunny bomb bunny bomb bunny bomb haircut.
Re:Gotcha! (Score:5, Funny)
That you can't use a computer?
Re:In other news (Score:1, Funny)
cute Asian mailwomen will backflip off of walls to get your letter to grandma.
I could see the population of /. mailing stuff to themselves if that were the situation.
Re:That's it (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ineffective as well? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's it (Score:5, Funny)
Me too. Big hair, spandex and uncomfortable rashes. At least Madonna was still a hottie, though.
Re:In other news (Score:3, Funny)
And all we need to do is accept a totalitarian state into our lives? Sign me up!
Re:Bankrupt them ! Problem solved. (Score:3, Funny)
How do you figure that? Say you need 1000 servers (7TB each) to store the data. At say $3000 a pop (overly generous) that's only 3 million dollars a week or 156 million dollars a year. Chump change for any industrial state.
Yes, but when you add in the cost of all the laptops, cell phones, PDAs, and USB thumb drives they'll have to copy this data onto, and the salaries of the people who will then have to go out and find creative new ways to lose those laptops on the metro or at a bar, then the costs become truly astronomical...
Tie it in to the CCTVs with speakers (Score:5, Funny)
It will be very handy to be strolling down the street and have a helpful government man spot you and say "You've got mail".
lemme try this out myself... (Score:3, Funny)
select count(*) from ukmail where content like '%terrorist%' or content like '%bomb%';
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
5 gazillion |
+----------+
1 row in set (in 82 years 3 months 18 days 3 hours 18.2 seconds)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Police state bullshit. (Score:1, Funny)
Parent is inaccurate: you can't bomb along the M25 (unless 15mph counts as bombing)
We need more spam! (Score:2, Funny)
One way to combat this stupid idea is to increase the amount of spam-mails on the net, filling their uber-database with endless crap.
Have an email client which silently replies to each and every spam you receive, while also junking it so that you never see it. When every computer is sending out hundreds of replies to spam every day the surveillance database will have to handle billions of messages.
Apart from the internet melting under the load, what could go wrong?
You are doing it wrong (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's it (Score:1, Funny)
are you proposing Anarchy? When do we meet to discuss this....
Re:That's it (Score:4, Funny)
Totally irrelevant but, speaking as a pendant
Somehow, I doubt you're that pretty.
Re:That's it (Score:3, Funny)
Any time you fkn like, at a meeting place of your choosing - that's what the rest of us will be doing. Screw the herd mentality or conforming to someone's imposed time/location.
Re:In other news (Score:1, Funny)
That gives me an idea...
Pay a spammer to send tens of thousands of emails with randomly encrypted text with a date in the future to various government officials..
It'll keep them so busy decrypting it they'll never get any proper spying done.
Re:wtf (Score:3, Funny)
With the current value of our dollar, they won't care to lose your patronage. :(