On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Graeme Fowler wrote:
>
> War against terrorism? I doubt it. This is a simple knee-jerk reaction
> to a runaway success in communications which has not been regulated from
> day one. The telephone systems have always been heavily regulated, the
> old postal system was a goverment dept. so tampering with Her Majesty's
> Mail was (although illegal) very simple if you had the right badge.
Just a bit of an aside here really. The Royal Mail was originally set up
in order to allow the monarchy to monitor all of the communications in the
UK to attempt to foil assassination plans. Perhaps the people of Britain
should have spotted the RIP bill coming a mile off? ;)
Personally, I hate the idea of it. I tend to encrypt my emails as a
matter of course as my little act of defiance. Still, this could be just
the excuse I was looking for to emmigrate... :)
Carl
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