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Warehouse or No, UK's Expensive Net Spying Plan Proceeds
Vincent West writes with this excerpt from The Register: "Spy chiefs are already spending hundreds of millions of pounds on a mass internet surveillance system, despite Jacqui Smith's announcement earlier this week that proposals for a central warehouse of communications data had been dumped on privacy grounds. The system — uncovered today by The Register and The Sunday Times — is being installed under a GCHQ project called Mastering the Internet (MTI). It will include thousands of deep packet inspection probes inside communications providers' networks, as well as massive computing power at the intelligence agency's Cheltenham base, 'the concrete doughnut.'"
With those specs, once it's compromised, it'll be the spambot to end all spambots!
Caveat Utilitor
Someone has WAY too much time on their hands. As a /.er I can spend a lot time writing comments but, this is ridiculus.
Does anyone have more information on the structure of the system
its a beo&*(%%&$NO CARRIER
I'm a rabbit startled by the headlights of life
Not at all ! Look on the bright side
I look at it as a zero cost backup :-)
"I lost my email to my bank - last tuesday it was - please send me your copy"
with phone taps too - who needs an answering machine :-)
[note to mods - I'm being flippant - not serious]
Emacs has a function for everything that is, or that could be, or could not be. It's Rule 35. Right after Rule 34.
Rule 35 even applies to rule 34! ^^
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.