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An EU Directive  (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2006/l_105/l_10520060413en00540063.pdf) comes into force today, which will require all ISPs to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites, telephone calls and texts for 12 months.

Police and security services will be able to access the information to combat crime and terrorism. (yeah right!)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7985339.stm

An example of democracy in action:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/apr/06/internet-houseofcommons

A shit law brought in via undemoctaric means.  Dosnt get much better does it?

I look forward to having my emails read by someone at SBC investagating if it is my dog that shat in the park 63 days ago.

I'm sure ISP's are going to love having to introduce all those extra resources to effectively packet sniff all of their clients. That's going to take a hell of a lot of processing power.

Fuck off Jacqui Smith.

You are shit.

So can I not say stuff about bombs and plutonium and rockets and stuff?

Yes you can. But not Islam, Muslim, suicide bombers, infidel, jihad, Allah, bomb, assassinate, president, Brown, Smith, Harman, Hoon, Osama, Obama, Sarkozy, Merkel, government, target, location, rocket, grenade, al-Qaeda, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, UK, America, guns, jets, machine-gun, terrorists, MPs, pigs, troughs, France, Germany, Italy, nuclear, Korea, anarchy, socialism, nihilism, fundamentalism, fascism, racism, communism.

Take that, you fucking totalitarian cunts.

I think it should be recommended. If i had the time and inclination i would attach a dynamic signature to all mail containing words such as nuclear, bomb, terrorism, islam, kill, assassinate, murder, president, obama, bush, osama, blair, gordon brown...

Give em so many red herrings and false positives they won't know where to start. It'd be amazing to overwhelm the "service" and ruin their filtering, which looking at the way the government do anything will be half-arsed, expensive and partially inoperable anyway.

Go on, do it. Even in business emails. If you make it white text on a white background nobody will notice.

Oh and put the 15th June in your calendar/diary. cc all of your emails (preferably including spam) to the fat ugly troughing cuntbag.

http://www.ccjacquismith.co.uk/ (http://www.ccjacquismith.co.uk/)

You're off to Guantamano Bay for a few years, matey. Does orange suit you?

You could easily generate dynamic signatures, but it would likely need to be inserted into an html email by an iframe, which them leaves a footprint as obvious as it gets. To make it truly annoying it would need to be without footprints, which i suspect could be done easily by sending mail, as text, through php send mail or an old Perl formail. Even then though they could just ignore it easily enough, but i suspect someone would still have to trawl through them. Which would be funny.

Which remind me of the trick that the Team America blokes played on the censors. When they originally made it, they made the sex-scene 45 minutes long so the sensors had to watch through every second of it. They then cut 99% of it out. :D

Oh, http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,32482.0.html

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I thought they only kept details of whom you send emails to and who you get emails from not the content of emails.

  That's the official line, but anyone who thinks that is the reality is misguided.

Exactly. In practice, it just won't work. They can't just choose to filter email headers, they'll effectively have to capture, reconstruct and read every packet of data you send/received.