[Chapter-delegates] Giant database plan 'Orwellian'

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello Frank Martin,

1.  What percentage of the Global Internet users are adept at such
technologies as PGP and IPSec ?  I would be surprised if a total of 10
million users use PGP and IPSec.

2.  With Governments determined to break into your mind, I wonder if it is
beyond their capacity to find a way to break into VPNs or find a way to
outsmart PGP and IPSec.

The problem is that Jacqui Smith says it is necessary. And so do several
other Governments and their home ministers.  There has been a subtle
"Weapons of Mass Destructions online"  propaganda that has slowly crept into
our minds that half the world already believes that the Internet is
"explosive" and is inclined to buy such arguments as the necessity of
Orwellian measures, dubbed so or not.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
ISOC India Chennai.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Franck Martin <franck at sopac.org> wrote:

> Time to use PGP and IPSec
>
> Franck Martin
> ICT Specialist
> franck at sopac.org
> SOPAC, Fiji
> GPG Key fingerprint = 44A4 8AE4 392A 3B92 FDF9  D9C6 BE79 9E60 81D9 1320
> "Toute connaissance est une reponse a une question" G.Bachelard
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sivasubramanian Muthusamy" <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> To: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Sent: Friday, 17 October, 2008 7:36:58 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Giant database plan 'Orwellian'
>
> Hello All,
>
> This link came up in the IGC mailing list... Posted here for discussion.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm
>
> Excerpts from this UK news:
>
> Details of the times, dates, duration and locations of mobile phone calls,
> numbers called, website visited and addresses e-mailed are already stored by
> telecoms companies for 12 months under a voluntary agreement.
>
> The data can be accessed by the police and security services on request -
> but the government plans to take control of the process in order to comply
> with an EU directive and make it easier for investigators to do their job.
>
> Information will be kept for two years by law and may be held centrally on
> a searchable database.
>
>
> -- Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy
>
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