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Finland police started Internet monitoring - with problems
From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:45:01 +0300 (EEST)
"Finland's police chief says he fears more school shootings as the Nordic country mourns the victims of the second massacre in less than a year. Police Commissioner Mikko Paatero says police will increase the monitoring of YouTube and other internet sites where the gunmen in both shootings posted clips foreshadowing the attacks." --clip-- More at http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jRhICe1OHOVDwBIeWm7ICsij-6kA And "The Internet monitoring unit of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is not capable of engaging in sufficient surveillance of the Internet on its own. Most of the time of the NBIs Internet police is taken up by checking on tipoffs from the public. The shootings in Kauhajoki sharply increased the number of reports coming in from the public on material depicting weapons, for instance. The Ministry of the Interior announced on Wednesday that it would upgrade its monitoring of online content in the upcoming weeks." --clip-- More at http://www.hs.fi/english/article/NBI+struggles+to+monitor+Internet+for+potentially+dangerous+content/1135239763081 According to Finnish language news there was two workers monitoring Internet 'full time' before this new decision mentioned. Reportedly the problem is the filtering system of Finnish police. It prevents access to YouTube etc. with specific keywords for security reasons :-( Additionally, several police stations have no access to YouTube etc. at all. Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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