On Sunday 09 Sep 2007 1:49 pm, ashok _ wrote: > You are a brave man indeed. You must have utmost faith in the > competence of the police to handle such information.
In fact there is an element of irony in the complaint that cyber-cafes are going to come under big brothers eye. A significant proportion of people doing the complaining either do not use cyber cafes or will stop using them henceforth and shift to what they consider more private. Whose freedom is being protected then? That is the point. If you want to use a public cyber cafe for private work, you are doing so at your own risk. Does big brother have to ram this information down throats by announcing spying for people to understand that? All the personal security measures that I mentioned cannot apply anyway in cybercafes. Personal security does not exist in cybercafes with or without government snooping. So why the angst? Anybody could snoop, even without telling you and if you are naive enough to believe that security exists in cybercafes - then its a good job the government is warning you that you are mistaken. Let us assume that I feel an element of jealousy that the government gives itself the power to snoop in cybercafes but does not extend the same freedom to me. That, I worry about and would sue the government if I felt strongly about it. But in a public area, gawking and snooping are par for the course. Who does it is moot. Why should it bother anyone that entity X is snooping rather than entity Y? The competence of any of these snoopers is totally beside the point if you wantonly expose your private work in a public place. shiv
