[access-uk] Re: To whom does your email belong?
- From: Jonathan H <digitaltoast@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:56:25 +0000
On 23 December 2014 at 18:40, Colin Howard <colin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... but I believe it has serious repercussions for the rest of us.
Well, Colin, there are 2.4 million emails sent every single second.
Again, that's 2,400,000 emails sent every single second.
There are Islamists blowing stuff up and ploughing vehicles into
Christmas shoppers left, right and centre, and MI5 are tracking
several hundred Islamist cells in the UK alone, each made up of
hundreds of people. There are people heading off in their hundreds to
fight with ISIS and in Syria and MI5 have to filter terabytes of
often-encrypted emails.
What makes you think you and I and "the rest of us" as you put it, are
so very, very important that a resource-stretched MI5 will stop what
it's doing to subpoena an email containing Christmas greetings? Not to
sound rude, but I've read your posts, and I really don't think you'll
ever be on the MI5 "person of interest" register! :)
If, in the course of its work, MI5 stop some swivel-eyed lunatic from
blowing me or my friends or family up, the fact that they might be
able to read my rather dull correspondence is a tiny, tiny price to
pay.
The danger to your liberty comes not from MI5, it comes from hackers
cleaning out your bank account to fund terrorists to buy the weapon
which one day may end your life while out shopping.
The real danger to peace is Edward Snowden, the real threat to you is
Syrian hackers, not the security services who have protected us from
countless mass attacks in the last 10 years.
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