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Pakistan To Start Monitoring All Emails, Phone Calls & 'Other Communications' With Foreigners
from the for-whose-safety? dept
You may remember that, a year ago, Pakistan announced they were banning encryption online. Not that any such ban would likely to be effective, but it seems to fit in with the claim that the government has told PTCL, the Pakistani telco, that within 90 days it must monitor basically all communications that go across the Pakistani border:
All emails, telephone calls and other communications with the rest of the world will begin to be monitored within 90 days at a cost of million of dollars, according to a deadline given by the government to operators including PTCL.Yeah, sure, just to "curb blasphemous and obscene websites." I'm sure all that monitoring won't be abused otherwise at all... right? Somehow, despite that earlier ban, I'm guessing that encryption technologies just became a lot more popular in Pakistan.
The government has assigned PTCL and other operators to install monitoring equipment by the end of this year for checking voice and email communications from abroad and the services of the country’s spy agency will be used basically to check and curb blasphemous and obscene websites on the Internet.
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So...
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That's It! No More Pakistani Contacts!
(I suspect this is exactly the way folks outside of our country look at us):(
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Well, here's a bit of similar news from my bookmarks.
Yes, it's old. No, it's not the same scale (yet), but the basic intent is the same. One should for a moment ponder just exactly how this would work in practice, the massive effort for just that one host, who decides when it's "too" radical, how casually Lieberman proposes unconstitutional censorship -- and most importantly, how he seems to view Google as having that mission.
And that's why ya can't scare me with foreign stories, Mike. I don't worry about furriners when there are already rabid fascists in DC.
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i suspect this will fail miserably at catching any but the lowest of low hanging fruits.
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There, FTFY!
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Re: Well, here's a bit of similar news from my bookmarks.
This article isn't meant to scare anyone, it's meant to point out an egregious violation of human rights. It's also meant to point to something that we all know the US wants to do and basically shout "THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T DO IT."
All we can do is watch as this fails miserably in Pakistan and hope that others are paying attention and decide not to do the same thing.
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Snail Mail Time?
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Bwahahahaha! I see what you did there.
Or maybe such a thing starting out as is does, as an abuse, might accidentally one day be used for something legitimate. Who can tell?
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the US is already doing it. what on earth makes you think they are not?
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A - Allah directly recommends it. You MUST watch/read/whatever (applies to the Koran for instance)
M - Mohammed approves, you may watch/read/whatever
P - Mohammed kind of approves but the Government doesn't like it. Proceed with caution
I - Infidel generated content. You'll be stoned to death if you keep reading/watching/whatever. Proceed at your own risk.
Sounds about right.
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Nice work
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