On 1 April 2012 12:23, Svip <svi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 April 2012 12:06, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745 > Also, this article was written on 1 April and is far beyond any > monitoring scheme ever suggested in the Western World. And I am sure > we would have heard about it being mentioned up until this point, if > it was real. It would be nice, but if it's a prank then (a) lots of other newspapers are in on it (b) ORG flagged the programme described several weeks in advance: http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme http://www.openrightsgroup.org/issues/ccdp So no, it's in no way a joke. This is absolutely real. > So I would take that article with a grain of salt. Particularly the > statement about 'real time'. That's not even feasible. That a desired monitoring regime would require a violation of physics has *never* stopped a legislative push for such. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
