Hi,
Not sure if I'm speaking to myself but here goes....
Quick intro... I'm a third year PhD student with Computing & Maths at
Liverpool John Moores University. I'm looking into methods for creating
accountable privacy within computer networks (particularly mobile
networks). My work is entirely technical but my interests in privacy and
surveillance are inevitably much broader. I may have met some of you at the
conference in June this year.
It is odd how events choose to time themselves. In one mail this morning
was an invitation to join a surveillance mailing list and in the next
message was a reference for an article at 'Wired' magazine about the NSA
ECHELON system, based at Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire. Here's the
reference;
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/15295.h
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According to one source the budget for this system is $1m per minute.
Discuss ;)
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Bob Askwith
Researcher (Computer Network Security)
Distributed Multimedia Systems Group
School of Computing & Math. Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University
Room 706, James Parsons Building
Byrom Street
Liverpool L3 3AF
Tel: +44 (0)151 231 2082
Fax: +44 (0)151 207 4594
Email: [log in to unmask]
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