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BBC To Deploy Detection Vans To Snoop On Internet Users (telegraph.co.uk)
product_bucket writes: The BBC has been given permission to use a new technology to detect users of the iPlayer who do not hold a TV license. Researchers at University College London have apparently developed a method to identify specially crafted "packets" of data over an encrypted Wi-Fi link without needing to break the underlying encryption itself. TV Licensing (the fee-collecting arm of the BBC) has said the practice is under regular scrutiny by independent regulators, but declined to elaborate on how the technique works. Dr Miguel Rio, a computer network expert who helped to oversee the doctoral thesis, said: "They actually don't need to decrypt traffic, because they can already see the packets. They have control over the iPlayer, so they can ensure that it sends packets at a specific size, and match them up. They could also use directional antennae to ensure they are viewing the Wi-Fi operating within your property." The BBC has been given such authority through the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
"They came up, saw I had a TV and DVD player, and left."
Did you have your TV and DVD player outside your front gate then?
Why did you let them into your house? Why did you even answer the door to them? Idiot.
Their threatening letters are carefully worded to SCARE you into thinking that 'visiting' an address is the same as GAINING ENTRY to an address. They can 'visit' my address all day, they won't get in, because I won't open the door to them, and even when I do open the door, I have it on a security cable (unbreakable).
The BBC are a bunch of insane, nation-wrecking Left wing cunts, run by a JEW (what a surprise), who hide reality about non-white on white crime on a daily basis, and blow up the slightest 'hurt' that a non-white suffers if a white 'says a rude word' to them, it's sickening.