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Bill Would Let Police Monitor Email

Posted by samzenpus on from the careful-what-you-write dept.

Duuk2k2 writes "The Canadian federal cabinet will review new legislation this fall that would give police and security agencies vast powers to begin surveillance of the Internet without court authority. The new measures would allow law-enforcement agents to intercept personal e-mails, text messages and possibly even password-secure websites used for purchasing and financial transactions."

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  1. Insert sarcasm tags: by Rei · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly, no abuse could come from this!

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    1. Re:Insert sarcasm tags: by Rei · · Score: 4, Funny

      Quite true. Legislators around the world are famous for their deep understanding of technology. As you know, most of them have PhDs in a wide range of technological fields - this is the reason that stupid tech laws never get passed.

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  2. Bill? by le_jfs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Him, again?

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  3. Hmmm... by BJH · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Vast" powers...but only over Canadians?

    WHOooooOOOoooOOOoooOOO! Ph33R!!

  4. Misread that... by chriswaclawik · · Score: 5, Funny
    Did anyone else think that the headline said that Bill Gates would personally allow the police to read his email?

    Even I thought that was too incredible to believe.

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    A guy walks into a bar... well, I forgot the joke, but the punchline is that he's an alcoholic.
  5. Functional Spec, Eh by Tackhead · · Score: 2, Funny
    OK, so, umm, good day, eh? I'm Bob McKenzie, and the guy with the mouse in the beer bottle stuck to his face is my brother Doug. (*muffled* Where's my free case, eh? You cheap bastards!)

    So, anyway, the telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Bob or Doug made, above the level of a very low blowing of wind across the mouth of an open beer bottle, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as they remained within the field of vision which the map of Canada commanded, they could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the CRTC plugged in on any individual channel was guesswork. It was conceivable that they watched the CBC all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every beer you drank was overheard, and, except in darkness, every attempt to take off was, like, looked at real close-like, eh?"

    - Some guy named George, Eh? He, like, wrote the functional spec for it. And he horked our beer.

  6. Re:When did we loose our sanity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    When did we loose our sanity?

    The day you lost your English spelling skills ?

  7. Re:Is really PGP the solution? by crazyphilman · · Score: 5, Funny

    The answer is simple: encrypt your email, then embed it via Steganography in a Goatse photo.

    Na, na na na... na na... na na
    Can't touch this!
    Na, na na na... na na... na na
    Can't TOUCH this!

    Looking online! It's a cop! Reading my email cuz he just can't stop from STICKING! His nose in, where it don't belong so he GOES in

    But HELLO! What the hell is this? The cop's found a picture, something's amiss and blammo! Thanks to Goatse, "Oh my EYES!" he yells and the piglet can't see!

    Na, na na na... Na na... na na
    Can't touch this!
    Na, na na na... Na na... Na na
    Can't touch this!

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  8. Re:Frustrating by Alien+Being · · Score: 3, Funny

    "It's the police. The police always want maximum powers,"

    Try not to stereotype. Just because there are a few bad apples doesn't mean that the other 2% are rotten.

  9. Re:"BLAIM CANADA! BLAIM CANADA!" by HermanAB · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suppose that is the American spelling... "Me fail English? That is unpossible!"

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  10. Re:That'll work by DirtyAlex · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously, the ones that use encryption don't get caught. ;)

  11. It's time... by Biomechanical · · Score: 2, Funny

    To use codes and cyphers.

    "Could you pick up some steaks on the way home? I was thinking about cooking steak and veges with gravy." becomes "Cows in the paddock, soylent green grocer tap-dances on water."

    Then you GPG encrypt it at anything above 4096 bit. :)

    Fun for the whole police department.

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    His name is Robert Paulsen...
  12. Old voicemail message: by darkonc · · Score: 3, Funny
    "I'm sorry. Our answering machine is broken -- but that's OK because our line is being tapped, so speak clearly and we'll get the transcripts from our lawyers."

    The message didn't last too long, though, because a couple of people took it too seriously.

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  13. Re:When did we loose our sanity? by KeelSpawn · · Score: 2, Funny

    I also thought that bill gates will be allowing the police to read people's emails... I was like, wtf??

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  14. Bill would let police monitor email by tchdab1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're an Outlook shop.
    Bill already lets anyone monitor our email.

    (Thank you! I'll be here all week!)