Encryption argument

[Wij]

The Reg has a nice article summing up many of the reasons why giving the government access to all our electronic communication would have cock-all effect in preveting terrorism.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21960.html

And that's without even mentioning the fact that terrorists could write their own encryption software. It's not hard.

 

[Testin da Cable]

good god heh
sometimes it makes me wonder you know
/me sighs

 

[Will]

Yeah. Good article that one - raises the point that the government wants to read our emails, not to keep tabs on terrorists.

 

[Wij]

unless they've infiltrated those organisations how would they know which emails to read ? and if they have why would they need to ?

don't take us for idiots mr straw :/

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by Wij
unless they've infiltrated those organisations how would they know which emails to read ? and if they have why would they need to ?

don't take us for idiots mr straw :/

hehe



"well, we'll just have to read all of them young man. the americans have a useful system that they will let us use [for a modest fee]. it goes without saying that they will have access to our data, after all, what are friends for? what? us access to their findings? oh, ahem, well we havn't really spoken about that yet, but I'll sure they will be nice to us."

 

[Wij]

I'm sure terrorists will send mails saying "Going to hijack plane 12345 at 19:45 on the 16th October. Me, Trevor Smith from Boston, Asif Mohammed from Karachi and my mum will be there."

 

[Testin da Cable]

lol
innit

 

[lovedaddy]

if I was you people, I would download a copy of GnuPGP now, before the US makes it closed source and adds back doors to it (plus you can recompile it on any format)

 

[Testin da Cable]

hehe

 

[Embattle]

The very freedom that the government whats us to fight for is also the one they want to take away

 

[old.Kez]

If this is implemented, I expect to abuse the DPA to some obsurd extent. Hurray for odd laws.

 

[Summo]

Maybe the government can sort through some of my spam mail for me.

 

[lovedaddy]

Or everyone could do what I generally do. Encrypt most emails with 56bit encryption. So that with enough effort the feds could break it, only to discover that they have waisted 3 months of their CPU power.

It aint encryption that kills people, it people that kill people.

 

[Testin da Cable]

slightly related stuff:

an ISP may well prefer to install its own kit rather than trust Carnivore operators to stick to the letter of the law.

hahaha. so now we have to trust home-grown kit over the evil that is carnivore? lol!

 

[Testin da Cable]

Pushing it aggressively is essentially a way of denying that it's a sub-standard tool.

^^taken from the article I linked to above.
isn't that standard marketing practice?

 

[Wij]

XP anyone ?

 

[Testin da Cable]

hehe look out Wij
before you know it you'll be denying you have a sub-standard tool

 

[Wij]

I deny it vigorously !

*check tool*

 

[Testin da Cable]

it's a good thing us men can do that in public

/end male pig act

 

[Wij]

I was expecting some comment from the recently registered "Wij's tool" to be honest

 

[Testin da Cable]

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that one?
I ctrl-c'd it for err posterity or something
I swear, on the head of my cat, that it isn't me btw.
in fact, I think I know who it is

 

[Wij]

The Chelmsford bit kinda gives a clue

 

[Testin da Cable]

aye

 

[Summo]

What?

The timings all cocked up now. But it was going to be hilarious...

 

[Wij]

Go on. Try it anyway