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Bill Would Let Police Monitor Email
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."
Almost everyone integrating GNUPG with their email solution so that all email is encrypted point to point. If the cops figured out a way around that, like, say, trying to make encryption illegal, then people will just switch to Steganography and send all their email using Goatse pictures.
Take THAT, Mr. Pig-man. It's GOATSE time!
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
You mean the budding police state to the south?
No hearing, no trial, no independent psychiatric evaluation, no appeal, nada.
I wonder how much one has to criticize the government(s) before the Provincial Psychiatrist serves your bank with an order to turn over your money.
You could've hired me.
The software lumber? Naw... that's all being outsourced to India anyways.
I think you mean softwood lumber. And that's not the only issue; what about Canadian beef? US Farmers are still fiercly rallying about how unsafe beef is in Canada. Let me tell you something. One mad cow was found in all of Canada, and the investigation showed that it got mad cow disease before it was shipped up here from the US .
People. I can't stand them.
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Well, it made the front page of the newspaper in Saskatoon today. I don't know about the Globe or the Post, though.
God save our Queen, and Heaven bless The Maple Leaf Forever!
Yes, but Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
... not to be compelled to be a witness in proceedings against that person in respect of the offence
Section 11 c) of that charter states:
Any person charged with an offence has the right
Furthermore, should somehow a law like that slip by the charter (the CRTC managed to slip by section 2 d, which the CRTC violates daily) section 11 i) prevents someone who would use encryption prior to such a law from having committed an offence by not knowing the key in the future.
To top it all off, section 13 of the charter states:
A witness who testifies in any proceedings has the right not to have any incriminating evidence so given used to incriminate that witness in any other proceedings, except in a prosecution for perjury or for the giving of contradictory evidence.
So yes, perhaps a law would require you to divulge your key in a court (unlikely and definitely a charter violation). Yet that key would have to be discarded as usable evidence in further trials (such as the one they start when they unlock the information), negating the usefulness of said law.
Dan Brown's book addresses this very issue. The one line that echoes in my head when reading this story is a line from the novel.
"Who will guard the guards?"
That line may have appeared in Dan Brown's book, but he didn't write it. He quoted the famous phrase ("quis custodiet ipsos custodes") from Juvenal's sixth satire.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
6 of the 9-11 terrorists came through canada, on the catferry from NS to bar harbor to get to boston
You have a source for this? I realize that it became a meme that terrorists came from Canada, and it is true that Rassam came from Canada on an attempt to bomb LAX, however it was my impression, and this was reiterated many times, that not one of the 9-11 terrorists came through Canada. Not that it matters anyways, as ferry or not they're still going through US Customs, and thus it's still up to the US to maintain its security (just as it does, or rather didn't do, when all of the others flew right in and should have raised every red flag).
Michael Geist has a column in the Toronto Star, the biggest circulation paper in the country. You can bet he will be on this. Last week he was all up in arms about some privacy thing, too.
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Securi ty_Establishment
it was my impression, and this was reiterated many times, that not one of the 9-11 terrorists came through Canada
Your impression is correct. Hearing this myth repeated ad nauseum by Fox pundits is one thing, but when a politician spouts it as well, that's another. When Newt Gingrich used this "fact" earlier this year, our Ambassador to the U.S. called him out pretty quickly, and forced an apology. Here is one article on the story.
Look at the tomato! Isn't it sad? He can't dance! Poor tomato!