On 1 April 2012 12:23, Svip svippy@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 April 2012 12:06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
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... 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.