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British ISPs Mad About RIP
msuzio writes "Wired is reporting on British ISPs who are mad as hell about RIP. The report talks about the ISPs dealing with unreasonable requests (archive all traffic for seven years), stupid cops ("What is a Hotmail account?"), and the threat that ISPs will move offshore.
There is also a great teaser at the end about Moot, a product to enable commonly available data encryption to UK users to combat RIP."
Here is another fool thinking the Government is your friend. When freedom is lost for promises of safety, it is always for false promises.
The government cannot protect you, you must protect yourself.
Many have died defending freedom, think how life was in the 1920's-30's. People were free to do a lot more than we can today, and were responsible about their actions.
WW2 was fought by Americans with idealistic notions of preserving world freedom. They would be appalled at the straight-jacket we now are confined to.
Come on, whenever someone waves the flag of child abuse/porn and stridently calls for ever-increasing restrictions on freedom or privacy, they are flapping a chimera. Society assumes the worst of anyone who objects, must be a child abuser/pornographer. This is the insidious way that your freedom is stolen. Someone wraps their cause in the cloak of something so hideous, no one will dare object becase if they do, they will be painted with the obcenity that the freedom-thief is piously opposing.
In summation, don't fall for this crap.
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At the moment in the UK the police have to obtain a warant from a judge if they wish to tap a phone. This will not apply to internet communications, and as such this piece of legislation is a blanket permission for police to potentially intercept and read all email without judicial oversight (I don't wish to get into a discussion over whether this is technically possible).
The chimera of paedophilia and terrorism is used as justification for all types of intrusive legislation - these are all covered under existing legislation.
For comprehensive coverage of the RIP legislation see
The ISP's are fighing massive bloat that will overwhelm them. Remember not all users receive stuff on a 14.4k baud dial up modem. ISP's will either have to limit bandwidth (Charge per meg) or carry fewer users at a higher price to meet the requirement.
The truth shall set you free!
Okay, fine. They want to log stuff and be able to go back and look at it later. I have an idea to defeat it, let's all use formats that become intentionally obseleted quickly, use PGP/GPG, high bit encoding, etc, and see if it does them any good. I'd start working on methods that made each email ~500K in size, so they flat out can't log it all. What are they going to do then? tell me that I can't exchange email that large? we'd all still do it anyway.
through this rant, the one point I'm trying to make is that everyone can just send a "Fuck you" to the government by making their seven years of logs and logged traffic take so incredibly much space that it isn't feasible, and we can make the logged information utterly useless through encryption and obselete formats that may be difficult to convert from. I think it should be done.
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> stopping the abuse of children in child porn
You think the individual freedom the ISPs users had in the UK is the cause of child abuse and child porn? Have you seen any statistics about reports of and detection of these crimes and how they have changed since the popularity of the internet? Do you know how these criminals operate?
Given the choices (a) and (b) that you propose, I would agree but they are not the choices we are presented with. The real choices are:
(a) Remove the rights of innocent users in case they might do something wrong in future. This will make the uninformed public feel safer whilst actually doing no good at all.
(b) Allow individual freedom to innocent citizens (unless and until they are proven guilty) This also has no effect on crime.
Why are you talking about the IRA and "criminal materials" and child porn?
In case you didn't realise, these things have been going on for a long time, since well before the internet was popular, and you haven't said one thing to suggest that the internet is making any of these problems worse. Would you know how to go about getting hold of a gun in the UK? I can tell you one thing - you wouldn't look on the internet.
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