Doubleplusungood

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.

PKI deserves to die

In response http://www2.cio.com/research/security/edit/a05232002.html

From: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>
Subject: Re: PKI: Only Mostly Dead

Scott,

as far as I'm concerned PKI is not only dying, it deserves to die
much more quickly. That's because when it works, it still doesn't
work. ( Read more... )