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Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes
YIAAL writes "Indian journalist Amit Varma reports that Mumbai's police are requiring the city's 500 Internet cafes to install keystroke loggers, which will capture every keystroke by users and turn that information over to the government — nearly in realtime by the sound of it. Buy things online, and the underpaid Indian police will have your credit card number. 'Will these end up getting sold in a black market somewhere? Not unlikely.'"
After they hire all the people required to sift and parse this data, there will be no Indian programmers left for outsourcing. Bravo, keep up the good work - bureaucracy know no bounds.
What a wonderful government we have and how much I'm glad that they're looking out for us Mumbaian citizens. This will surely stamp out terrorism in my country, where the evil-doing bomb-plotters have been sipping lattes in conspiratorial net-enabled secrecy for far too long. Our glorious (and handsome!) leaders have finally realized that only when all of our thoughts have been properly parsed and vetted by a central governing board of censors can we truly be free. This is a wonderful day, truly.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
You damn liberals just don't get it: we are fighing a War on Terra, and need EVERY tool available to us. You don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide.
It's the duty of every good conservative to have blind faith in government. Government derives it's power from the wealthy, and as every good conservative knows, God tells us the wealthy are better people (that's why they have money). So if you are against the government... ANY government (especially a good conservative dictatorship), you are just a terrorist.