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by Mike Masnick

Mon, Jun 10th 2002 11:41am





Europe's Secret Plans To Spy On All Email

from the so-it-goes dept

It seems that folks in Europe have been working out a secret plan to make ISPs be forced to record all information about emails and web use for a period of five years. They're also required to keep copies of everyone's passwords. While the article talks about how this is quite the privacy violation (and it is) and possibly a huge security issue, I also wonder about how this is going to impact all of those ISPs that need to record and store this data. That's a lot of data they're suddenly going to be forced to record and hang onto. Also, I don't really see how it helps to simply store more data, which will only make it more difficult to find the important data.

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    Kindred spirit?

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    Joe Schmoe, Jun 10th, 2002 @ 12:41pm

    "Also, I don't really see how it helps to simply store more data, which will only make it more difficult to find the important data."

    OhMyGawd - there's someone else out there who understands this concept?

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    Poorly though out laws...

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    Timaaay!, Jun 10th, 2002 @ 1:32pm

    I've heard about the British version of this law in NTK for a while now. It seems totally unenfocable -- what happens when the ISP goes bankrupt? And keeping the password is a total joke which decreases privacy alot with zero improvement in secracy. I see this will give rampant rise to Steganography -- you can always claim that the low order bits in the image are just noise and not you secret message -- who's to disprove it?

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