For legal computer forensic buffs and expert computer security
scientists...and Alice, Bob & Eve...of course... :-). There are going to
be huge changes in surveillance laws here in the UK over the next couple
of years.
url:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473603/51973_Cm_9151_Transparency_Accessible.pdf
Anderson Report url:
https://terrorismlegislationreviewer.independent.gov.uk/
Enjoy our brave new democratic world, an open season on internet
research, website visits, networking of all kinds, journalists, M.P.s.
Doctors & Patient records, Finance & Business, revolutionaries,
terrorists, dissidents, paedophiles, fraudsters, and criminals like dog
owners who allow their animals to crap on the pavement...without picking
it up...to name but a few of those people and relationships that will be
affected. No content will be looked at, of course, unless by warrant.
The people of the UK will have the best surveillance oversight in the
whole word...even better than the US, China, Russia, Egypt and North
Korea...
I think we can safely say that concepts of individual privacy and
secrecy for the masses has disappeared down the pan, flushed into the
dustbin of history, whilst for the state and its civil servants it will
be purely proportionate. General Warrants??? Don't make me laugh. And
shouldn't it be that way?...
I think, already under RIPA (though it may be the computer misuse act)
Any person witholding access to encryption for the purposes of being
suspected of hiding a crime can already be fined or put in jail for
refusing to divugle their pass phrases, giving access to the information
which might incriminate them. No "I take the 5th" in the UK.
Enjoy...:-).
ATB
Dougie.
P.S. I think I will go away on holiday again...Much more fun working out
the mathematics and putting up a spiral staircase in my French DIY
project...No television, no internet, no telephone...no news...pity
about the weather. Reading is good though, Imperium, Lustrum and
Dictator by Richard Harris...Ancient Rome is so much like today... :-).
