Nanny State part 2567

retired_princesspouty · 10-01-2007, 12:36 PM

It was a headline in yesterday's Sunday Mail... which says it all really.

retired_bball3378 · 10-01-2007, 12:40 PM

Everytime sometime types a key word like 'Osama' on an internet messageboard such as this one, a buzzer goes off in a secret government agency....

I can only imagine the horror of having to read every text message sent in the UK.

retired_khabmth · 10-01-2007, 01:19 PM

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Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
We're losing our privacy / civil liberties etc. etc. etc.

And you are getting this discussion now??? We had it here well over a year ago, just when they decided about it...

retired_therob · 10-01-2007, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by James07?:
Everytime sometime types a key word like 'Osama' on an internet messageboard such as this one, a buzzer goes off in a secret government agency....

I can only imagine the horror of having to read every text message sent in the UK.

I was told that if you have two email addresses and sent two emails from one to the other, one with innocent text and the other saying 'Bush bomb terrorist assinate etc', the latter will always arrive later than the other, even if you send it first. The explanation is meant to be that the 'terrorist' email gets forwarded through MI5 or the CIA or something.

Would be interesting to test, but can't be arsed investing all of 10 minutes in it.

retired_amymae2001 · 10-01-2007, 02:27 PM

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Originally posted by msteuk:
It's crap, but doesn't really change things significantly.

The whole thing about being able to 'pinpoint' people using phone masts and triangulation techniques sounds rubbish.

'It looks like our suspect was somewhere in north London at the time he made the call, Guv'.

Its not rubbish at all, mobile phone calls can be traced to the source very accurately, the police can respond to a phone call when there is no one "there" but shouting/fighting/arguing can be heard in the background.

It's how a lot of domestic violence victims are helped/saved, when they cant get away from their partner to make the call.

So its not rubbish at all.

It cant just be done willy nilly though, it requires authorisation from a certain level of the policing structure.

retired_therob · 10-01-2007, 03:02 PM

How accurate, say to the nearest square metre?

StewDogg · 10-01-2007, 03:08 PM

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Originally posted by msteuk:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Ruudfood:
When a society is lawless enough to need to be controlled they will be controlled.

If everyone behaved themselves it wouldn't be necessary so however small your misdemeanour you shouldn't think "yeah, but I'm not hurting anyone". If you're not adhering to the law, you're not adhering to the law - plain and simple!

The causal link works backwards too though. I.e. pervasive control breeds disobedience. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes, but surely the disobedience comes first.

Ventil · 10-01-2007, 03:09 PM

[WHISPER] They've been monitoring our everyday actions for years [/WHISPER]

All those massive golf balls on sticks you see, that's what they're there for.

Don't get me started on the messages they send out that we pick up with our hair*.

*see reasons why going bald isn't such a bad thing