The Government’s Nigerian Porn Warehouse
DIZZY spots “Interesting news in the Telegraph this morning”:
It appears that the Government’s plan to have a large spam warehouse which will record the details of each mail we send and receive may never make it to the statute book by the time of the next election because of basic Parliamentary time constraints.
They’re watching:
Of course, that doesn’t mean it is being shelved but I would bet that it being kicked into the long grass simply because of the inevitable cost it would have and the fact that the Government has never delivered an IT project on time or on budget, thus committing to it and forcing it through may be a bit risky.
Having said this of course, the spam warehouse would only be monitoring the average bod. You’re average techie, hyper-criminal and terrorist will instead be encrypting all their mail with a 256 bit DSA key pair and sending and receiving across an IPSEC tunnel which goes via a server outside the scope and reach of the proposed system and using non-standard TCP ports for extra measure.
Perhaps someone has had a persuasive word in the ear of the Home Secretary and pointed out to her that her little scheme will just end up being a giant and completely unsearchable dump for porn traffic statistics and 419 scam source addresses an recipients?
Ah, porn and politics…
Posted: 22nd, November 2008 | In: Technology Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
