On 1 Apr 2012, at 15:30, Justin Wilson wrote: > I hate April 1 on the Web. You are right you never can tell. I would be > appalled if someone as respectable as the BBC stoops to downright dumb > pranks.
It is true. It's called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) and is comprehensively discussed at the OpenRightsGroup* wiki: http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme ...and somewhat less comprehensively at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme See also ZDNet from February, in case you think it's still an April 1st joke: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2012/02/20/isps-kept-in-dark-about-uks-plans-to-intercept-twitter-40095083/ - alec -- * disclosure: I help out with ORG in an unpaid capacity