Re: RoHS => tin whiskers?

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:36:01 +0200, the renowned "Frithiof Andreas
Jensen" <frithiof.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


<langwadt@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1149798428.627827.281820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I believe they "only" want to store sender and receiver information
not
the actual content. But thats scary enough.

Very. Think "All IP network" - the sender/receiver information is in
every package and must be there regardless of encryption so the
legislation neatly sidesteps a nasty technical issue.

Apart from that, the really interesting information about you is in
the network of people you communicate with; f.ex. how many links are
incoming to you, how many outgoing and call frequencies on each
decides your spot in the hierachy.

Guilt by association. Your neighbor down the street is a
communist/jihadist/boogy man. Your kid talks to his kid for an hour at
a time sometimes, on your phone. You've got some 'splainin to do. Cast
a wide enough and loose enough net and you'll find such people with
additional simultaneous inconvenient coincidences that make them look
even more guilty. Maybe they lost their temper and said something that
a jerk neighbor will repeat. Maybe they made an angry comment they
though was anonymous in a chat room or on a blog. Maybe they were
curious and went to some web sites as a result of a news report. Start
with ten thousand people or a hundred thousand and you'll probably end
up with a handful who are absolutely innocent but look guilty as hell.

Of course if you're afraid of that sort of thing happening, you might
change your habits out of fear and to avoid suspicion. This kind of
electronic monitoring could make a police state far more practical
than those using humans. Part of the reason even some nominally
communist countries feel more free than here is that they are still
cash-based and also just don't have the technology to track every move
everyone makes.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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