Comments on: Party Like Its 1984, British Plan to Monitor All Net Use, Emails and Phone Calls http://www.uberreview.com/2008/05/party-like-its-1984-british-plan-to-monitor-all-net-use-emails-and-phone-calls.htm An Eclectic Mix Of Gadgets & Wired Madness Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:38:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: C. S. Magor http://www.uberreview.com/2008/05/party-like-its-1984-british-plan-to-monitor-all-net-use-emails-and-phone-calls.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12718 C. S. Magor Fri, 23 May 2008 14:22:25 +0000 http://www.uberreview.com/2008/05/party-like-its-1984-british-plan-to-monitor-all-net-use-emails-and-phone-calls.htm#comment-12718 Dan H. Terrorism just about anywhere is rare and unusual, but the UK has had more than its share of it. If you recall their troubles with the IRA in the past. Packet sniffing is perfectly feasible and with cooperation from ISPs it could be implemented. Dan H.
Terrorism just about anywhere is rare and unusual, but the UK has had more than its share of it. If you recall their troubles with the IRA in the past.

Packet sniffing is perfectly feasible and with cooperation from ISPs it could be implemented.

]]> By: Dr Dan H. http://www.uberreview.com/2008/05/party-like-its-1984-british-plan-to-monitor-all-net-use-emails-and-phone-calls.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12716 Dr Dan H. Fri, 23 May 2008 11:04:59 +0000 http://www.uberreview.com/2008/05/party-like-its-1984-british-plan-to-monitor-all-net-use-emails-and-phone-calls.htm#comment-12716 There's one other thing wrong with this proposal: to make it work and return useful data, you'd need to build a version of the Google File System and search system that works several times faster than that which Google use, and which stores a couple of orders of magnitude more data. This is not feasible, not even remotely. Furthermore, it is pretty much useless for any useful purpose, and doesn't even do much to help the common person in the UK. Terrorism in the UK is rare and unusual, and most of the current crop of incompetents were mostly harmless anyway. The current problem in the UK is lawlessness caused by an overly bureaucratic policing system which costs too much, and punishes too little and offers way too little scope for actually catching criminals. There’s one other thing wrong with this proposal: to make it work and return useful data, you’d need to build a version of the Google File System and search system that works several times faster than that which Google use, and which stores a couple of orders of magnitude more data.

This is not feasible, not even remotely.

Furthermore, it is pretty much useless for any useful purpose, and doesn’t even do much to help the common person in the UK. Terrorism in the UK is rare and unusual, and most of the current crop of incompetents were mostly harmless anyway.

The current problem in the UK is lawlessness caused by an overly bureaucratic policing system which costs too much, and punishes too little and offers way too little scope for actually catching criminals.

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