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NO HIDING PLACE -surveillance, UK and paranoia

Bryan Appleyard | 18.04.2001 20:20

Britain is now a surveillance state. The authorities may be prying into your 'private' life this second. And in the electronic age, it is much easier for innocent people to be mistaken for criminals. Bryan Appleyard investigates
(Borrowed from the Sunday Times Magazine)

Bryan Appleyard

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Dont worry,the've lost

19.04.2001 08:51

They lost the clipper chip,PGP and assasination politics,in the west.Stasi was de-constructed in the east. and that was comprable with your situation.I dont bother with anonymyty or encryption any more as it slows things down.Hide in plain sight and move to open source.Freenet,free operating systems and freedom to take out soft drill contracts on people like jack.(one million mojo-pounds for his head)
Soft drill is the open source distro of A.P.
Totalitarians are terrified because we will win!

proffr@fuckmicrosoft.com

Arrogance could get us all screwed

19.04.2001 10:10

It's easy to say that these totalitarians are running scared when you're not sat in the middle of police-state numero uno. CCTV is a problem, as is the fact the police can stop and search at will - combined, 2001 starts to look more like1984. Obviously, we mustn't let this put us off, or stop doing things which the 'spooks' wouldn't want us to - but we do need to be a bit more careful, precautionary and sensible. Failing that, start spray-painting over those cute little holes in the front of the cameras...

Everything is not going to be alright unless you do something.

jamie

The industry

20.04.2001 08:15

We forget the industry - cctv not only allows unprecedented access into our lives/protects the masters of the universe from worrisome people who want to establish real peoplerule/provides easy political capital for any party who wants to play on the fears and insecurities of an increasingly paranoid society, it also fuels the hungry beast. Massive contracts for the guys who make them, massive contracts for the software companies that program them , huge public sector cash injections to the ever hungry pigs. All resulting in (maybe) more arrests, more people in prisons - more contracts for group 4 and whichever bastards run Marriott and the slammers of the man. More potential dissenters off the streets, more atomization of the ghettoes, less who would mobilize against the system, coming full circle to more social paranoia about crime, and more 'resolve' on the part of our glorious leaders to get tough on crime. Ergo: more pigs on the streets, more cctvs installed.

Simple, really.
It ain't just the spooks who are laughing.

Bray's security - I want my picture back!

Ben
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