1984 Arrives

 
Spenty said:
The article I read on this said they will only monitor time, duration and the phone number and not the content itself.
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They have already passed this in Norway (in the quote). Has been an outrage about it as the public had no say :(

They are going to start doing it from 1st of June here.
 
Spenty said:
The article I read on this said they will only monitor time, duration and the phone number and not the content itself.
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This. My mobile phone company already know who I call, when and for how long. What difference does it make if the government know that. They will still need a warrant to look at the content.
 
Not a good development. Though other than out of principle, for most people it doesn't really matter.

Now what steps would you take if you want to avoid it?

Foreign VPN in a country that doesn't keep logs? How do you know the provider isn't scamming people?

Tor? Governments and criminals can set up as exit nodes and receive the unencrypted data. So useless if you're checking emails, IM or social networks where you use your real name. Additionally they could try packet matching
 
Tefal said:
isn't ssl etc vulnerable to man in the middle though?

and if the ISPs are being forced then that's the ultimate man in the middle?
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MITM is easily mitigated against with proper authentication methods and symmetric encryption protocols are obviously not vulnerable to this attack.
 
Killerkebab said:
What happens when it becomes law to disclose your decryption keys to law enforcement, should they ask for it (this might even be true already)?
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Doesn't apply because you don't know the encryption keys, they are created by the computer at the start of the session and then destroyed at the end of the session.
 
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