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2008-05-20 Britain

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Posted by tipper 2008-05-20 06:07|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Stupid idea. Given that over 70% of email traffic is spam, the signal to noise ratio is very high. Also, most email is deleted from a server once downloaded by the user. To keep it all on servers would be prohibitive as cost is concerned. If the gubmint wants to pay for storage to keep copies of every spam, well...
The solution is -- oh, the dreaded p-word -- profiling.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-05-20 07:11|| 2008-05-20 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Dumb.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-20 07:19|| 2008-05-20 07:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, I see, the gubmint wants to spool the data into their own database in real time or close. That is even stupider. I can't imagine a better money sink.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-05-20 07:24|| 2008-05-20 07:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Buy stock in disc drive companies?

Posted by 3dc 2008-05-20 09:29|| 2008-05-20 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 for those of you not old enough to remember, there was a myth/meme originaly known to me as the "Trunk Trawler".

The idea was that the gubmint was recording all phone conversations, and doing something unspecified, yet sinister with them. [insert favorite totalitarian sequence of events here].

IIRC, this idea goes back to the 70's. When the internet became popular, this myth/meme was updated to include your email. It also went global. Google ECHELON for a taste of the subsequent lunacy.

Old Spook probably would have more to tell you, if he cared to.

Of course, I could be just saying this to help with the cover. After all, I too work for the gubmint, and telling you the truth would ...$@#^&% >>NO CARRIER

Posted by N guard 2008-05-20 09:40|| 2008-05-20 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Dumb and easily foiled.
All an organization has to do is word swapping, or any simplistic code such as use every sixth word.

Posted by wxjames 2008-05-20 11:32|| 2008-05-20 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/eyeballs.jpg

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-20 11:36|| 2008-05-20 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 They can watch me all they want, they'll die of boredom.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-05-20 14:11|| 2008-05-20 14:11|| Front Page Top

#9 I once proposed, quite seriously, that we should send Russia EVERYTHING that is produced by our government at every level, by our universities, and whatever is in print from every business in the United States - and send it to them in English. Since the Russians are paranoid, they'll translate every single word. With the proliferation of information in the United States (this was in the 70's), Russia would be totally overwhelmed in a year or two. Even if they managed to keep their heads above water at first, the requirement of translating that much data would force the government to employ 90% or more of the population. To really foul them up, take out all the punctuation and formatting.

Neither "Big Brother" nor the Russians can afford to do that. The data may be there, but there are neither enough people in government to do the research, nor enough hours in the day to keep up with everything being said and done. You HAVE to do keyword searches, you HAVE to winnow out the useless bulk of the data, and spend your time on only those things that are truly necessary.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-05-20 16:47|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-05-20 16:47|| Front Page Top

#10 And so it has arrived - Britain's NHS goes NATIONAL/GLOBAL INFORMATION SERVICE [NIS, GIS]???

NET > The World is suppos to run out of Internet space in approxi THREE YEARS.

D *** NG IT, NIS > NAVAL {NET?] INTELLIGENCE SERVICE?? SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE NUMER **** + THE APOCALPYSE [Internet Apocalyp] IS ITSELF APOCALYPTIN'???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-20 19:47|| 2008-05-20 19:47|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 - Like we have not yet translated even a fraction of the Iraqi intelligence gleaned after Saddam fell?

Posted by Bobby 2008-05-20 21:16|| 2008-05-20 21:16|| Front Page Top

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