Big Brother UK part XVII

[Steve Schear]

At 05:58 AM 11/5/2008, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3384743/Internet-black-boxes-to-record-every-email-and-website-visit.html
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>Internet black boxes to record every email and website visit
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>Internet "black boxes" could be used to record every email and website visit
>made by computer users in Britain, it has been reported.

>One delegate at the meeting told the Independent: "They said they only wanted
>to return to a position they were in before the emergence of internet
>communication, when they were able to monitor all correspondence with a
>police suspect. The difference here is they will be in a much better position
>to spy on many more people on the basis of their internet behaviour. Also
>there's a grey area between what is content and what is traffic. Is what is
>said in a chat room content or just traffic?"
>
>Ministers have said plans for the database have not been confirmed, and that
>it is not their intention to introduce monitoring or storage equipment that
>will check or hold the content of emails or phonecalls on the traffic.

It will be interesting to see how they respond to private VPNs with 
constantly encrypted (filled) traffic)

Steve