tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post6516787088206326688..comments2024-03-22T12:20:48.920+00:00Comments on open...: Policing the Function Creep...Glyn Moodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-48439157922630888652009-07-11T08:46:15.143+00:002009-07-11T08:46:15.143+00:00Embrace - Extend - Extinguish.Embrace - Extend - Extinguish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-67306305044864958652009-07-08T18:02:20.160+00:002009-07-08T18:02:20.160+00:00@Crosbie: nice one...but then the UK authorities w...@Crosbie: nice one...but then the UK authorities would just pass a law banning the technique....Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-4084201329937412142009-07-08T17:55:58.247+00:002009-07-08T17:55:58.247+00:00What if there was a standard file-delete utility s...What if there was a standard file-delete utility supplied with Linux (for deleting e-mail, etc.) that deliberately encrypted files for deletion with a random key?<br /><br />This would mean that all Linux PCs contained encrypted data to which the owner did not possess the key.<br /><br />When the situation of PC owners not being cognisant of keys becomes commonplace, then failure to produce keys should no longer be implicitly wilful.<br /><br />As an aside, copyright enforcement measures are one of the very things that are going to persuade more widespread adoption of encryption by the layman.Crosbie Fitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554471152790988479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-66855333664524786882009-07-08T16:41:55.879+00:002009-07-08T16:41:55.879+00:00Sorry to ruin your Wednesday. And Thursday, Frida...Sorry to ruin your Wednesday. And Thursday, Friday...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-68164944863281793732009-07-08T16:37:04.205+00:002009-07-08T16:37:04.205+00:00Bloody hell! It's even worse than I thought. G...Bloody hell! It's even worse than I thought. Gobsmacked.Roger Lancefieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-90952183839772207002009-07-08T16:32:10.844+00:002009-07-08T16:32:10.844+00:00Oh my word yes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/techno...Oh my word yes:<br /><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7102180.stm<br /><br />the rozzers are already ahead of you, Lancefield: better watch your step, sonny...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-70739781634383038712009-07-08T16:27:57.532+00:002009-07-08T16:27:57.532+00:00Wow. I missed that, is that already a clause in th...Wow. I missed that, is that already a clause in the Act?Roger Lancefieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-8719744879998643502009-07-08T16:25:47.663+00:002009-07-08T16:25:47.663+00:00But surely with RIPA, they don't need to: eith...But surely with RIPA, they don't need to: either you hand it over when they ask for it, or it's 2 years porridge...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-41009789251335865962009-07-08T16:24:06.623+00:002009-07-08T16:24:06.623+00:00From The Register article:
More broadly, new Nati...From The Register article:<br /><br /><i>More broadly, new National Police Improvement Agency guidelines will insist on computer training at every stage of development, so that once they are senior investigators, detectives will be "experts" in digital investigation. All current detectives will also be expected to acquire new skills.</i><br /><br />My prediction (hardly a unique one): police will demand "registration" of all encryption keys within next 24 to 36 months.Roger Lancefieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-71058790291778136142009-07-08T16:06:44.620+00:002009-07-08T16:06:44.620+00:00Let's hope 2010 doesn't disappoint us, the...Let's hope 2010 doesn't disappoint us, then, or I may be leaving the country...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-10598961375942711952009-07-08T16:04:46.693+00:002009-07-08T16:04:46.693+00:00I think at this point we have to assume that there...I think at this point we have to assume that there is nothing "thoughtless" or inadvertent about what is happening. Given the volume of concern expressed by senior establishment figures including lawyers, MPs, journalists, senior policemen and even an ex-head of the ICO, I don't think the "ignorance" assumption is credible anymore, if it ever was.<br /><br />Given the number of MPs in the current government with arts and humanities degrees, who are fully aware of the lessons of 20th Century history, members are not going to be able to claim at a later date "we didn't realise what we were doing". That's just not going to wash.<br /><br />I was wrong in my earlier comment to single out the security services for blame for the dangerous situation we're now in. They can only operate in the space, and with the powers, bestowed upon them by the law and by the government.Roger Lancefieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-29286966014510339132009-07-08T15:34:40.513+00:002009-07-08T15:34:40.513+00:00Utterly extraordinary, isn't? And they seem s...Utterly extraordinary, isn't? And they seem so oblivious of what they're saying and doing...Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-87129855227664426752009-07-08T15:27:21.760+00:002009-07-08T15:27:21.760+00:00"Police moves to prepare for the glut of newl...<i>"Police moves to prepare for the glut of newly accessible data"</i><br /><br />That would be *our*, by rights, private data forming that "glut"?<br /><br /><i>She predicted always considering communications data will lead to a 20 per cent increase in the productivity of CID teams</i><br /><br />So, police "productivity" rates can be increased marginally if our fundamental human rights are ignored? What will the measures be the next time a productivity boost is deemed necessary?<br /><br />I'm fast coming to the belief that the biggest threats to the British people are own disconnected-from-majority-opinion security services with their cancerous, paranoid and futile quest for "total security", a quest that if unchecked is eventually going to make prisoners of us all.Roger Lancefieldnoreply@blogger.com