-=> Quoting John Quain to All <=-
 JQ> From what I hear about this new (police) bill, it will not require a
 JQ> warrant to (for instance) bug anybody's phone in 'certain
 JQ> circumstances', and that generally the warrant could be obtained
 JQ> retroactively (ie after the event) 
 JQ> I guess this also covers the monitoring of cellular phones.
This has been going on for _years_, including bugging for commercial
purposes.  Meantime, in the US, PGP had been declared a munition, in
an attempt to stop people enjoying privacy.
 JQ> If you read editorials discussing this coming from other countries,
 JQ> most notably the US, they cannot understand how come there is no
 JQ> protest about this, as most modern democracies find this kind of
 JQ> unchecked overweening power distasteful.
It is distasteful, Orwellian, and frightening.  There's no protest
about this because forums are being censored of debate.  Like
censoring the internet (coz of the alt.sex.* forums being used as
a cover), 'phone tapping by the State is being legitimatised under
the cover of "only checking for criminal activity".  Whilst trying
to ban anyone else from owning or using a scanner.  Not that those
would help with GSM anyway
Loads of PGP stuff here at origin, or FReq FILES for the list
rgdZ
Richard
... we're the State, and we're frightened of what you might say
--- FMail/386 1.02
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