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Stories · 4

  1. UK Government Owns 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses

    Yro · Government · · posted by Unknown · from the who-needs-that-ipv6-thing dept. · 399 comments
    hypnosec writes "The Department of Work and Pensions in the UK has a /8 block of IPv4 addresses that is unused. An e-petition was created asking the DWP to sell off the block to ease the IPv4 address scarcity in the RIPE region. John Graham-Cumming, the person who first discovered the unused block, discovered that these 16.9 million IP addresses were unused after checking in the ASN database."

  2. UK Proposing Real-Time Monitoring of All Communications

    It · Security · · posted by Unknown · from the good-day-to-bury-bad-news dept. · 145 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "In response to a plans to introduce real time monitoring of all UK Internet communications, a petition has been set up in opposition." Previously covered here, El Reg chimes in with a bit of conspiracy theorizing and further analysis: "It would appear that the story is being managed: the government is looking to make sure that CCDP is an old news story well ahead of the Queen's Speech to Parliament on 9 May. Sundays — especially Sunday April the 1st — are good days to have potentially unpopular news reach the population at large."

  3. Parents Baffled By Science Questions

    Science · Education · · posted by samzenpus · from the don't-get-smart-with-me dept. · 656 comments
    Pickens writes "The BBC reports that four out of five parents living in the UK have been stumped by a science question posed by their children with the top three most-asked questions: 'Where do babies come from?', 'What makes a rainbow?' and 'Why is the sky blue?'. The survey was carried out to mark the launch of a new website by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills called Science: So what? So everything."

  4. Every Email In UK To Be Monitored

    Yro · Privacy · · posted by samzenpus · from the what-are-you-writing dept. · 785 comments
    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.'"