I said there is a little benefit for most of users, of course there
would be some who could find it usefull, however that's no reason to
redirect all users. I use wikipedia a lot, and I don't care if someone
see which pages I open. If someone does care, they should switch to
https themselves.

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1 April 2012 12:23, Svip <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 1 April 2012 12:06, David Gerard <[email protected]> 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.
>
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