Re: UK is ideal home for electronic Big Brother

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

Doesn't that actually place us as Big Brother's Little Brother? ;-)

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David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP
Small Blue-Green World



 


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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Martin Tomasek
Sent: 08 April 2009 16:52
To: funsec
Subject: [funsec] UK is ideal home for electronic Big Brother


"When it comes to spying on emails and online behaviour, the British
government is particularly well placed.
A new analysis suggests that more internet traffic passes through the UK
than any other country bar the US."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.300-uk-is-ideal-home-for-elec
tronic-big-brother.html

According to paper http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0903/0903.3218v1.pdf,
table 1, the countries around the world are suited for surveilance in
following order:
U.S, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, France, Sweden, Hungary, China,
etc..

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Martin Tomasek

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