I can enlighten you. The benefit will be the ability to spot, and take
action against, the less-than-intelligent criminal selling stolen goods on e-bay.
Terrorists will learn not to use mobiles, e-mail and land lines. They'll
meet secretly in a secure location without CCTV.
If they do use an electronic form of communiction they'll use a sophisticated
code that won't be cracked until after the event.
The weather on the 15th of this month is going to be very hot, especially in
the park.
Ian B
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In a message dated 13/07/05 07:36:35 GMT Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
> "The home secretary is also expected to make a fresh push to compel
> internet
> and phone companies across Europe to retain their record of traffic on
> millions of private e-mails, text messages and mobile phone calls for up to
> three years.
>
> Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has already argued that the cost of forcing
> firms across the EU to keep the records is worth paying to stop terror
> attacks."
>
> Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4677241.stm
>
> I seem to remember them talking about this whilst they were introducing
> RIPA. All the talk of "Black boxes" at ISP data centres and so on. I believe
> business managed to stop that due to the cost.
>
> What exactly are they proposing? Its not clear.
>
> Telco's retain Itemised billing records for upto a year or two and upto six
> (or is it seven) on copies of invoices for VAT purposes. Isn't that
> sufficient or are they referring to all the fields of CDR's?
>
> As for email, if I were to setup my own email servers (10 minutes work) or
> use email servers outside the countries covered by these proposals, I'd
> easily circumvent these measures - as I'm sure any net savvy terrorist would
> realise.
>
> So I fail to see the benefit from this. Can anyone enlighten me?
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