tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post8057328339219544895..comments2024-03-28T09:19:27.451+00:00Comments on RevK<sup>®</sup>'s ramblings: SeppukuRevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-50274707925204605692015-01-07T17:20:02.178+00:002015-01-07T17:20:02.178+00:00They don't need to get small fry to do this, t...They don't need to get small fry to do this, the blanket surveillence happens at the wholesale and the backbone levels.<br /><br />Also, as a general principle, setting up "whack a mole" situations to evade a law is futile, and rightly so. Otherwise all the laws we agree would be evaded, too, using similar means. Okay, sometimes some of them are, but only to a very limited extent.<br />Tom Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09820841399735150776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-15955566830670586732014-10-20T11:13:32.719+01:002014-10-20T11:13:32.719+01:00Open Rights Group are one, and we donate quite a b...Open Rights Group are one, and we donate quite a bit to them.RevKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-5143438907562981472014-10-20T10:10:45.351+01:002014-10-20T10:10:45.351+01:00Encryption and "tricks" to get around th...Encryption and "tricks" to get around this are all very well and good, but really the only long term solution is to persuade the government that while most people see the necessity for targeting surveillance, they find indiscriminate mass surveillance to be totally unacceptable. We need some effective lobbying and communication. <br /><br />Are there any organizations that are doing this that need donations? Effectively I mean. I'm sure there are plenty of ineffective pressure groups that are being ignored, and there any organised and effective organisationsJohn Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07156658352563482506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-23081431928909391182014-10-18T19:17:47.655+01:002014-10-18T19:17:47.655+01:00Being largely WBMC based, I imagine HMG would just...Being largely WBMC based, I imagine HMG would just stick the black box on BT's backbone (and TTW's), neatly capturing all the broadband traffic anyway - at least until/unless you encrypt the PPPoE traffic.<br /><br />(Their counterparts have been tapping Google's 10+G inter-DC links for a while, so tapping each of BT Wholesale's backhaul links wouldn't cause them any hair loss.)jas88https://www.blogger.com/profile/05563592458314214904noreply@blogger.com