Re: MI5: Internet Phone Services a Risk to National Security

["Martin Tomasek" <tomasek () ufe cz>]

We want more power. We want to monitor your every move to satisfy our mental 
disorders. A classic.

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From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>
To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 6:45 AM
Subject: [funsec] MI5: Internet Phone Services a Risk to National Security


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> Wow. Speechless.
>
> Via Computerworld UK.
>
> [snip]
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> Internet telephone services pose a serious threat to Britain's security,
> the head of MI5 has said.
>
> The danger with online calls, said spy chief Jonathan Evans, was that they
> do not result in telephone bills, which are key evidence documents in
> prosecutions. This meant it would be much easier for terrorists to make 
> the
> calls and eventually escape prosecution if they are tried for criminal
> offences.
>
> In an interview with the media yesterday, Evans, director general at MI5
> since 2007, said online phone calls posed a "significant detriment to
> national security" by enabling terrorists to communicate with less risk.
>
> Evans lent his support to the government's planned database of every
> phone call, internet use and email in the UK, saying that it was important
> the security agencies could access this information.
>
> "If we are to maintain our capability we are going to have to make
> decisions [on powers to intercept communications] in the next few years,"
> he was reported as saying, in the Daily Telegraph. "Because traditional
> ways are unlikely to work."
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news
> /index.cfm?NewsId=12650
>
> - - ferg
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> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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