On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:23:40AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:24:01AM +0100, [email protected] wrote 0.1K bytes in > 3 lines about: > : > : This is off-topic, but isn't UDP making data retention more difficult > : than TCP/IP. > > How would UDP make data retention more difficult?
That was posed as a question, but I accidently dropped the question mark. The idea is that UDP is a connectionless protocol, while the bulk of off-shelf lawful interception software and intent behind the data retention legislation as well as ISP-side financial investment into interception infrastructure will be initially mostly focused on HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and its ilk. This might open up a loophole which could take several years to close. That's the hypothesis. What do you think?
