Damm. That's a lot of terrorist. What a dangerous, scary place it must be over there.
Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [funsec] UK 'Spying' Requests Exceed 500,000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The BBC. [snip] More than 500,000 official "spying" requests for private communications data such as telephone records were made last year, a report says. Police, security services and other public bodies made requests for billing details and other information. Interception of Communications Commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy said 1,707 of these had been from councils. A separate report criticises local authorities for using powers to target minor offences such as fly-tipping [1]. [snip] More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7520371.stm [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-tipping - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFIh4Uvq1pz9mNUZTMRAkfPAJ43NhC+eeT9TiyKvSTkHyI1he0VQQCgm0Y8 NySRRb0KfSB5dJURMUdpZ+k= =fcjZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
