2015-12-17

More on #IPBill

I have submitted more written evidence to the Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill today, after giving oral evidence on the 9th.

There are still a lot of issues, but I thought I would try and explain some of the technical challenges as well as possible for them.

PDF.

Written evidence is open to all to submit, and anything that helps explain the issues: moral, ethical, technical, practical, etc, will help challenge the bill and hopefully make changes.

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  1. It's a good document but I don't expect they will take any notice of anything they don't want to hear.

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  2. Ban on mail servers run by end users coming in 3… 2…

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  3. I just hope this gets read (it explains some very technical details very clearly - love the shredder analogy for packet switching so much I'm stealing it for my A Level Computing class!).

    I wrote to my MP about this bill last month and haven't received a reply. Not that it matters - she'll vote the way her party tells her to regardless of her constituents' views.

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    1. I was tempted to find a single axis shredder, print the submission, shred it, and post that to them... Sadly I suspect they would not get the point.

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  4. Good document with nice use of analogies to help them understand the reasons why you are saying what you are saying. I too hope it is read.

    Personally I wouldn't start it with "Once upon a time" as it sounds a bit condescending, maybe "At one time" would be better?

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