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Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138

Posted by timothy on from the henceforth-it's-orkbay-orkbay dept.

Assar Bruno Boveri writes "Swedish lawmakers came down in favour of a fiercely debated surveillance bill in a vote at the Riksdag on Wednesday evening. Despite some cosmetic changes, Sweden's proposed surveillance law is still a monster, writes Pär Ström from the independent New Welfare Foundation." The Swedish newspaper DN (in Swedish; translations welcome) compares the implications of the proposed law with activities carried out by East Germany's Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (STASI).

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  1. Obligatory by oahazmatt · · Score: 4, Funny

    There was considerable outrage among the Swedish. One vocal protestor was quoted as stating: "B'york b'york! Mmb'york york burdy hurdy m'yurdy!"

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    1. Re:Obligatory by everphilski · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?
      See the løveli lakes
      The wonderful telephøne system
      And mani interesting furry animals

    2. Re:Obligatory by tmosley · · Score: 2, Funny

      He's obviously a Norwegian living in Sweden, you insensitive clod!

    3. Re:Obligatory by irondonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

      Including the majestic møøse

    4. Re:Obligatory by ayjay29 · · Score: 2, Funny

      My sister got bitten by a møøse once.

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  2. Re:for those of us who can't read sweedish by JCSoRocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's also helpful for people that can't read Swedish.

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  3. Re:Sad sad sad day by Tazor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it is time to move to China where my rights are secure..

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  4. In Soviet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet Sweden, erotica watches YOU!

  5. Re:a href, for father Dagon's sake! by wizardforce · · Score: 2, Funny

    you mean you're not using the linkification extension or selecting the text and dragging it to open in a new tab?

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  6. Re:Well... by aliquis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, China here I come! :D

  7. Re:for those of us who can't read sweedish by Narpak · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the interview he makes it clear that mail with encrypted contents are of special interest to the FRA. Possible terrorists would likely not use clear-text naming of where they will strike and with what sort of force. Supposedly encryption applications like PGP are hard to break but with one or more computers in the million SEK range it will be possible to break everything from encrypted love-letters to journalist correspondance with protected sources. The latter is protected by constitutional rights. FRA can not know anything about the content before the encryption is broken. Thus a catch-22 is created. In practice the constitutional paragraph regarding protection of sources worthless. Well lets all send lots of emails encrypted with the best avalible methods, and lets make sure that the text we encrypt is just random letters and numbers. If they are going to monitor our traffic at the very least we can do our best to flood the system with crap.
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  8. Re:I foresee some interesting torrent developments by I+cant+believe+its+n · · Score: 2, Funny

    We are listening to your objections
    Kind regards FRA - Sweden

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