"Crime plan targets phone thefts": http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1109000/1109234.stm Apparently, Jack Straw (famously authoritarian British Home Secretary) wants the phone companies to do something about street robbery of mobile phones - now a third of all robbery in London and very embarrassing for the government because it totally masks the genuine underlying ongoing reduction in crime. Straw: "We have a shared interest with mobile telephone manufacturers and the operators in making telephones more secure, It's difficult because many of the phones that are sold these days are the pay-as-you-go phones, but there is more that can be done and this is all about joining together in a partnership with industries, the public and the police to help get these crimes down." So mugging is joined to the now 6 or 7 horsepersons of the infocalypse as yet another reason to ban anonymous phones? I wonder who is in Straw's driving seat this time? Something Must be Done is always a bad start to legislation. Do we get the Dangerous Telephones Act 2001? Ken (and not his employers who are law-abiding people who would do nothing to annoy a Home Secretary)