Posts by NullUserName

CISA blowup: 'Web giants sharing private info isn't about security – it's state surveillance'

They always want more

Politicians by profession always want power, so they think the solution to every problem is giving them more power.

FUD, give us power, Fear#2, give us more power, Fear#4863856 etc..

The irony is the more they want the power to spy, the more they encourage more & better encryption and not everyone will play by their laws, like other countries and criminals (who will buy encryption tools and services from hackers). So while they won't stop criminals, they will get increasingly more intrusive and powerful spying on the general population.

But then Politicians want more power over (the majority of) people. That is where their power really comes from, so they want more power, and so it continues to get ever worse.

UK's super-cyber-snoop shopping list: Internet data, bulk spying, covert equipment tapping

They always want more

They claim loss of power. Lies, as no Government in history has had power to spy on entire population.

Irony is technical people can bypass this via point to point encryption to an out of the country proxy.

So this won't help police against criminals, it'll help politicans against entire non-technical population.

(Don't forget many hackers are very technical, so they will have ways to bypass this and will willingly sell it for a price. How about point to point encryption to a virus infected out of country home computer/proxy etc..). We can discuss the many ways in detail over hours, but bottom line is, this government plan won't stop criminals. But it will be spying (and data mining) on the entire population and they will add ever more powerful data mining over time.

News from 2006, "Britain is 'surveillance society'" ... yet this news is proof its far worse now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6108496.stm