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UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History (telegraph.co.uk)
whoever57 writes: The UK government plans to require ISPs and telcoms companies to maintain browsing and email history of UK residents for a period of 12 months and make the data available to police on request without a warrant. "The new powers would allow the police to seize details of the website and searches being made by people they wanted to investigate." Exactly how they expect the ISPs to provide search histories now that most Google searches use SSL isn't explained (and probably not even considered by those proposing the legislation). Similarly with Gmail and other email providers using SMTP TLS and IMAPS, much email is opaque to ISPs. Will this drive more use of VPNs and TOR?
This comes alongside news that UK police used powers granted to them by anti-terrorism laws to seize a journalist's laptop.
about how the US is treating its citizens with privacy.. But you people are writing the book on the matter.
A totalitarian world government.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Don't worry, they won't care about your pr0n searches...well, maybe they'll just store them all up for 'later use' should you become a problem in the future.
As Cameron said "For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone"
Fuck them all. You heard it here first.
What you have to remember here is that Her Majesty's Gov't especially Theresa May and David (Knob in a Pig) Cameron can't even spell "internet" let alone being able to draft any coherent legislation to control the Internet.
This is more from the UK Gov't's Department of Sound Bites for the Newspapers Agency. It will never happen because they don't understand the scale of the problem or the massive bucket of data they'd need the ISP to hold and we all know that GCHQ are doing this stuff already. They also don't reveal that most ISPs want to remain as carrier only and not collectors of their customer's data (except Talk Talk who already collect it just so they can let the hackers steal it).
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
Brit to fellow Brit in bar: Have you heard? The tories are going to track all your e-mails.
Fellow Brit: Awesome. What time does the match start?
No, your children are not the special ones. Nor are your pets.
According to the article, the proposal would pay the ISPs costs to retain the information. Given the value of the data (blackmail, harassment, etc.) there is strong incentive for many independent agents to try to get it and the track record on security for far less valuable information is not so great. I'm sure the ISPs costs are overstated and their incentive to do a great job securing the data properly is not so clear.
It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
There is nothing more predictable than a "revolt". Boycott -- selective use of one product over another -- is much more attention getting. Sony ships a rootkit, and earns my perma boycott. I have a few others I could name, but I'd prefer to not have negative karma.
I come here for the love
It's the government that is revolting
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
You, sir are an asshole
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
SELECT user, url FROM visits WHERE url LIKE '%sex%' AND user IN (SELECT user FROM visits WHERE url LIKE '%politics%');
Do you know biology? Look it up. Darwin and later genetics, show that the difference between all people in the world is minimal. A, for example, black person may look very different, their genetics are very similar.
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!
Just remember, European governments are really concerned about your privacy! That's why they want all the private and personal data of Europeans kept on European servers. You know, so that they can better protect you!
The previous generations have built up tremendous capital in these western countries. Trouble is, with relatively weak legal constraints on governments, if they turned more totalitarian, they would not only be bad because of that, but because of its possible feasting on that saved-up capital. Don't rest comfortably just because you're comfortable.
The ignorant will not be swayed by facts. Hence their ignorance.
Quickest way to kill it is to send them the bill for coding, power, location hosting, backups, etc. As soon as they fund the expense it happens. It'll die as an unfunded expense.
The truth shall set you free!
A totalitarian world government.
Maybe the Amish are on to something.
Neck Beards?
---Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliment as it is damning with light praise.
Or just use a VPN service or TOR
Lots of trivial ways around this... no need to panic.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
As long as the government is willing to allow the public access to all government emails and phone records also.
Spy on them as they spy on us. Fair is fair.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
Searches using Google run through HTTPS. So, how exactly is the ISP to record those searches?
How do they plan to investigate just you by accessing the data from your Internet connection?
Man in the Middle attack
That may include data of other people.
Yes that is the plan.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
And means they will be spying on innocent people
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
--- Cardinal Richelieu
who are above suspicion.
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Which can never be legal.
Oh you innocent summer child...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
---Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliment as it is damning with light praise.
Cameron (the dead pig fucker) states himself that they leave "no place to hide", no encryption (that can't be broken) no VPN, etc.
All of this while holding the specter of the the 4 horsemen of the infopocalypse.
Dead Pig Romance
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
Cameron: No Encryption
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
4 horsemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Couple all that with CCTV, and a garden variety of other assaults on the freedoms on the UK and you get Prison Island. (My name for the UK)
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
I have nothing to hide, and neither should you. Anything to make this dangerous world a bit safer.
To paraphrase the Late Sir Terry Pratchett
The innocent have everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
---Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliment as it is damning with light praise.
If you've done nothing, then you've got nothing to hide :)
Counter point If I have done nothing wrong you have no reason to spy on me.
---Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliment as it is damning with light praise.
The year after the year of Linux on the desktop?
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
We'll we're all ignorant on some things. But they seem wilfully ignorant. Especially when it threatens their religion.
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!
Apparently, at year end, Facebook will be automatically sharing all of your old posts to anyone using a search engine, no matter how they were posted, unless you go into FB options for security and change Privacy for all old posts to Friends Only instead of Public. You might also want to look at what FB thinks your history is and delete things like pics you don't want shared.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
And they know how to grow food, unlike most of us.
I would take as many migrants into my country as possible no matter where they come from. The only better thing is if scum like you would leave.
Use of Tor in America is already practically proof of guilt, they just have to figure out whether to hang drug charges or child pr0n charges on your guilty ass. They have pre-determined the only people who really need the anonymity it provides live in officially recognized repressive regimes, either Myanmar, Iran, or Afghanistan.
John
I have nothing to hide, and neither should you. Anything to make this dangerous world a bit safer.
Either you're trolling, or the irony of you posting this as "Anonymous Coward" is completely lost on you. :-)
Koans and fables for the software engineer
Democracy was long viewed as an effective deterrent to totalitarianism. Unfortunately, those of a fascist leaning have now found an effective way around it:
1. Establish it slowly
2. Keep the population in fear so they sign off on anything
3. Make sure voters have no real alternatives
We are heading towards a fascist world order. Slowly this time, but with no real opposition unlike last time.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Once this is indeed put in place have a robot access a large set of sites randomly and send emails on frequent intervals to itself or a set of known bad addresses (or even known good ones that have the inbox thrown away daily). This will effectively grow the logs and history to so ridiculous proportions that analyzing anything will be pointless and storing all that data will become a major expense for ISPs. Once there is compelling evidence that this is bad for business and ISPs unfortunately have to cut back on contributions to political campaigns because of that the law will be scrapped in no time. You want data? OK, here, I give you tons of it! Data is not the same as information, ya know?
Did I say there are no differences? He's talking about "historically White countries", as if those white people where 'good' people and then "import millions of the absolute lowest dregs of humanity". Don't you think he means that those people are lesser because they look different? The statue of liberty specifically says "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!