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 <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 April 2012 12:23, Svip <svippy(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 1 April 2012 12:06, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)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_Developmen…
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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