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[ciphergoth]

Thanks to akicif for the heads-up, propogating this one because it's important and fucking scary.

A headline (Government sweeps aside privacy rights) and a leader (British Liberty, RIP) from today's Guardian. It's not just the Police, Intelligence services, and the tax authorities who can get at anyone's telephone and internet communications data without a warrant or court order, but seven Whitehall departments, every local authority in the country, NHS bodies in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and 11 other public bodies ranging from the postal services commission to the food standards agency....

But it seems it's all necessary to continue the War on Terrorism. So that's all right, then.

Unchanged from akicif's text because I can't improve on how he put it! See also "'Snoop' plans raise privacy fears" (BBC News)

Update and, following wechsler's example, here's my PGP public key.

Comments

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Random points:
Time to make sure as much traffic as possible is encrypted at the transport layer as well.

Don't forget to support your local anonymous e-mail/proxy service.

Any idea if crowds is still operational?

I wonder if the public lynx clients will see increased usage.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

I'll assume that that's the sort of "Crowds" that aren't illegal under the CJA then?

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Crowds was/is a peer-to-peer anonymising proxy service.
It bounced http requests around between other crowds users before spitting it out somewhere random.

[jinxremoving.livejournal.com]

*sighhh*

the CJA was my first demonstration! i suspect things have been going steadily downhill since then ...

[giolla.livejournal.com]

coo it's still there:
http://www.research.att.com/projects/crowds/ (http://www.research.att.com/projects/crowds/)
Looks as though it may be languishing somewhat mind.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we should be using FreeS/WAN opportunistic encryption...

What sort of encrypted connections to the lynx clients are available? ssh? ssl-telnet?

[giolla.livejournal.com]

And make sure our mail servers etc. all support TLS.
A not for profit open source CA would be quite useful as well, with as little information kept as possible.

Lynx clients, as far as I know only exist via normal telnet.
Should be fairly easy to improve that though, and anyway unlike mail and web etc. I don't know of any ISP that monitors and logs people's telnet activities.