Re: Cautiously optimistic
"The main thing that worries me - like the posters above - if how easy it will be for Plod and other services to get their hands on that data."
I'd be worried about the big data analytics they could then do on it. Anyone with a passing interest in how explosives work will go on one list, anyone who watches porn on another list, looking up drug paraphernalia would warrant a further look. Next step after all the lists is proper surveillance to strike before these ne'er-do-wells get a chance to commit the crimes they were bound to commit if left to their own devices.
It is, of course, unthinkable that someone may have seen all the terrorism in the news and then decided to properly research <insert evil religion here> and then look up what an IED is, which later sparked curiosity as to how these devices are created. Nope, anyone with such curiosity is more likely a terrorist than educating themselves and should be shipped to gitmo asap.
Of course, it might be that <insert government here> don't want you to learn that <insert religion here> isn't evil and that there were other reasons for <insert war here> which led to the people of <country> wanting to get their own back on <insert oppressive western country with penchant for bombing anyone with a bit of a suntan here>. Obviously not that, western countries are always protecting those we bomb really and those we bomb are always grateful.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
