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Data retention: encryption won't protect you much • The Register The standard infosec advice of “encrypt it all and use strong passwords” is good advice, but it wouldn't save us from governments intent on mass data collection. In this<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/25/journalists-sources-are-no-longer-safe>piece in *The Guardian*, Paul Farrell notes that metadata collection is a threat to journalism. His point is quite simple: Australia already allows metadata access under rules that are so loose that if, for example, a journalist received information from a Treasury whistleblower, that department could issue a metadata request. http://bit.ly/1o3QQ00 Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/28/data_retention_encryption_wont_protect_you/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1o3QQ00+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]