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UK RIP Bill Reintroduced
AIM31 writes "The amendments to RIP bill in the UK, which gives the power to read email headers and history to such bodies as the Postal Service, is back. with amendments. Last time it was rejected after massive protest."
I live in the UK but the number of stupid laws is approaching american levels. Can somone recomend a country I could move to which protects the civil liberties of its citizens; prefrebaly English speaking? Thanks in advance.
There is no god
As protest last time a group sent the then home secretary a bunch of encrypted emails. It would have actually been illegal for him to recieve them because of the poor wording in the bill - you had to be able to decode anything that you recieve.
What is Blairs government up to? Compulsory ID cards - which I read that Blunkett is still trying to get introduced, monitoring car speeds via satellite transmission/receivers, mobile police radar "saftey" (speed) cameras used by illegally parked police who refuse to divulge the amount of revenue they raise from issuing tickets etc.
I'm beginning to think that Blair is big brother. Next time, I won't be voting for his lot or any of the others. They're all as bad as each other.
Is it possible (well, I know it is, I guess I mean how difficult is it -IANAC-), to build a reasonably simple programme that would just sit in the background requesting web pages.
Gazillions of them.
Constantly...
Surely the weight of data would flood ISP's.
Okay, problems with this:
Bandwidth - I am on DSL, so not such a problem, but do we need to retrieve all the data? No, just pull the text. And have the thing running in the background. If you have a permanent connection (a la DSL), then run it constantly, whilst you aren't surfing / downloading et cetera. The bandwidth cost to ISP's would rocket, and thus cause fiscal issues for them.
Other problems: None that I can think of - enlighten me.
As for e-mail: Get a pgp key, and send random emails. If you had a key that was specifically used for this then somehow the receiving party could know to just delete all mails sent with that key. Rotate the key every couple of weeks, and voila (oops - wrote viola, thank heavens for preview), the mail can't even be filtered by key.
Seems viable. The big issue is bandwidth usage, both locally and as an issue to the community as a whole. But it puts such a strain on the system (i.e. the monitoring) that monitoring becomes non viable.
Comments?
The best is the enemy of the good
Most of your links aren't inherently evil. The GPS tracking scheme is designed as a mechanism to deal with road tolls and the RFIDs are an anti-shoplifting measure. The issue is the uses they could be put to without any real diffculty, and without even telling us.
They should start using Rubberhose. Basically, you have a partition that looks like it's filled with random data, but give a password, and you see some files, give another password, and there are other files, and so on, but the KGB agents won't know if there's still another cache of data hidden in there or if that really was all of it, and the rest is really just garbage.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
OK, so vote for the LibDems.
No, they won't win the next election. But look at significantly less evil governments in Scotland and Wales as a result of coalitions between the LibDems and Labour - wouldn't it be nice to have that for the UK as a whole? Labour probably aren't going at the next election and we don't want the Tories so the best we can hope for is coalition government, surely?
Plus, remembering we're not a country where it's possible to bribe politicians in the same way, they actually care about the ballot box. Make it clear that you've voted for someone else because of rubbish like this and they're going to be a lot less inclined to produce it again. This government isn't trusted at the moment and is mostly popular because people don't claim to see an alternative. If you don't offer a possibility of voting against them, why should they change?
Greg
(Inside a nuclear plant)
Aaaarrrggh! Run! The canary has mutated!
If police and governmental agencies are not required to obtain a warrant before recording travels and communications of a citizen's computer, then there is no limitation on the State's use of these methods on any person's computer, whether criminal activity is suspected or not. The resulting trespass into private affairs of UK citizens is precisely what article I, section 7 was intended to prevent. It should be recalled that one aspect of the browser and email surveillance in Young that troubled us was the fact that if its use did not require a warrant, there would be no limitation on the government's ability to use it on any private residence, at any time regardless of whether criminal activity is suspected.
As with browser surveillance, use of email tracking is a particularly intrusive method of surveillance, making it possible to acquire an enormous amount of personal information about the citizen under circumstances where the individual is unaware that every single email sent or received, may be recorded by the government.
We conclude that citizens of this nation have a right to be free from the type of governmental intrusion that occurs when browser and email surveillance is used, regardless of reduced privacy expectations due to advances in technology. We hold that under article I, section 7 a warrant is required for these actions.
As part of my work, I have a rack at a co-lo. There are no services other than bandwidth provided by the co-lo (Level 3). I run DNS, mail, web, ftp, etc. etc. on machines at the co-lo for all the domains I use.
.The potential bandwidth this room can saturate is pretty F'ing big - /. effect, eat your heart out! My personal best peak so far has been 76 mbit/second throughput ...
How likely is it that Level-3 are actually storing anything - they'd have to put a transparent proxy in front of my systems, and it would have to be fast enough and good enough to handle the 500 or so racks in the room the my rack is in. Each rack is served with 100mbit (which I use) and 1Gbit endpoints..
They could always have one proxy per customer, I suppose, but that's a lot of rack space going to "waste". I suppose if you use blade servers, you could fit ~120 or so in a rack, otherwise at 1U proxy-machine per customer, you're looking at 13 racks for my room. Did I mention there are several other rooms just as large or larger ?
So, how's it going to work for businesses ?
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
No. As a Finn I must say that our government just keep an eye on the dissidents in a more quiet way. Why bother implementing draconian laws when that would only piss the public off?
These days the police have a carte blanche to listen to anyone's phone. All they need to do is to ask for a warrant from a court clerk and not one request was denied last year.
I parttake in demonstrations against globalism and campaign against the fur industry. Once I called a fur shop from a public phone and told them that they are in an unethical business and deserve whatever is coming to them. Lo and behold, next day I got a call from the cops who basically said that they can prove I made the call and that the next time they'll come after me. I still don't know how they knew it was me, but I had to lay low for a while.
Firstly, most Icelanders speak English but their language is very much Icelandic. Secondary, it is very hard to move to live there. While they do accept many tempory immigrants, they are infamous for how they politically treat them. Lastly, while the government may try to protect its citizens, I've found the Icelanders to be much the same with respects to Europe as what Southern Rednecks are in the USA. "Are these guys for real!?" is something you'll be saying alot if you spend time around them.
Oh and they like to eat whales while saying it is for 'research'.