The UK passed a new law a week ago (covered in one of the M&M postings) making it against the law to take a pic with a cop in it. Jail time, fines and so forth. All while the UK has the most amount of camera’s on the street in the world.

Journalists, photographers, media people and many other are pissed. Film/take a pic of a cop. Against the law now in the UK.

Think of the implications…

Think of the unbalanced implications.

The UK is the model of things to come here.

This has all happened before.
We’ve forgotten history, soon we’ll enjoy the repeat.
It looks like a race to see who gets to play the Nazi’s.

Perhaps providing broadband was not one of the Taliban’s directives while it was in power and that’s why they don’t have it.

What’s this about the UK and photos of police?

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Of course it is going to far. The problem is too many people actually believe they will be safer or their children will be safer by more strict rules and by privacy invasion. “I have nothing to hide” is their defense, along with the belief no one will really be doing that to them. I have tried to argue about civil liberties and how they will be monitoring your information, your net usage, your phone usage, cameras in your home, etc… His reply? “If it helps them find the terrorist next door to me, then it is find with me.”

So naive. And as others have said, it won’t stop at DPI. They will push and push until everything is monitored. And there’s no accountability; no one is punished for false information or mistakes. Lives of the innocent will undoubtedly be ruined and the powers that be will get away with it. As long as we have people who continue to sacrifice freedom for security, we’ll see civil liberties eroded.

Not that I would rewrite that information (A)

Its just going to far, I think

it won’t end there. Why do you think the first 3 articles above have people who have been tortured for nothing?

Bad info, partial info etc… This will be used by national/homeland security and people will be off to Egypt to have their genitals slashed for what they do online or who they talk to. The people above have already been tortured due to guilt by association.

This any different? No.

Packet sniffing is already marketed, see BlueCoat Systems. They make Proxy servers that analyze the packets that come through with very little impact on performance. I can’t say much more because I interviewed with them (Dec 2008) and went to their info session back in 2006. But they have some amazing technology.

I don’t know who their customers are though or how they plan to handle 128-bit encryption without the key, that’s assuming BT uses encryption. I haven’t a clue, I’ve never used it.

What would really be helpful is for the government to say “OK, we’re going to demand your ISP keep track of your surf records and file sharing and all that, but, anytime we need it, we’ll have an oversight committee who’ll ensure no third party access is permitted. We’ll only allow police to access this information for pedo cases.”

Dont stick your nose where it dosent belong!!!

and the Government has no right or place to say to ISPs to keep logs Catch Murderers!!

What are those logs going to contain? I guess the Police will hate to learn what encryption is the hard way =P Jumbled letters and Numbers