Where's the "All your emails and texts and phonecalls are belong to us" thread then?

[eek]

. I'm clearly not a security expert, but know one or two who I've discussed this with... and concluded it wasn't worth the effort.

+1. I can't see the point of making my life difficult to make someone else's live difficult but I'm fairly legit in what I do.

I don't however do facebook or other social media simply because its too easy to screw things up there.

[Dearnla]

+1. I can't see the point of making my life difficult to make someone else's live difficult but I'm fairly legit in what I do.

I don't however do facebook or other social media simply because its too easy to screw things up there.

You're missing out on all those uploaded pictures of relative's children at a birthday party or "liking" the fact someone is down the pub.
Tsk, Tsk....

[Sysman]

Another Xogg classic.

Should have set alarm bells ringing all over the place.

He missed out No Such Agency and Echelon though.

[amcdonald]

Meh it's just adding real time capabilities to Excalibur, nothing to see here folks

[eek]

You're missing out on all those uploaded pictures of relative's children at a birthday party or "liking" the fact someone is down the pub.
Tsk, Tsk....

Thank god for that. My wife complains that all she sees is who her friends are seeing for lunch and that they have taken the dog for a walk (again).

I'll happily skip and avoid every mini details of most peoples lives. It probably doesn't interest them let alone the rest of us.

[Sysman]

AFAIK you have to be very particular about what VPN service you use, as most have encryption the MOD have the keys to anyway, and even if they don't - if the session is configured in a particular way it's quite easy to work out who you are. I'm clearly not a security expert, but know one or two who I've discussed this with... and concluded it wasn't worth the effort.

Back when Usenet was popular when a regular poster decided to hide under an anonymous name and IP address, you could often guess who it was from their writing style, common grammar usage etc. I'm sure the authorities have linguistics folks who can do this stuff with ease.

It's like securing your house. If you make it hard for folks to get in, you won't keep the pros out if they really want to get in, but you will deter the casual or lesser thief.

[Churchill]

Testing testing, one, two three four.


Can you hear me GCHQ?

Testing testing.

And people think this doesn't happen now?

[Churchill]

Shirley the government has had the capability to do this for years: Echelon (signals intelligence) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Is it just that it's realtime, or that more eyes will be able to see the data without good cause? The article: BBC News - Campaigners criticise email and web monitoring plan

AFAIK you have to be very particular about what VPN service you use, as most have encryption the MOD have the keys to anyway, and even if they don't - if the session is configured in a particular way it's quite easy to work out who you are. I'm clearly not a security expert, but know one or two who I've discussed this with... and concluded it wasn't worth the effort.

It's not the technology that's under debate, it's the legality.

[amcdonald]

It's not the technology that's under debate, it's the legality.

Since when has our government ever worried about obeying laws it doesn't want to

[eek]

Since when has our government ever worried about obeying laws it doesn't want to

The fact the government haven't ignored the courts refusal to extradite Abu Qatada to Jordan. When Italy had a similar request they simply extradited the suspect and paid a relatively small fine.