There's a lot worse than child porn, murder and drugs![]()
Yeah they got a whole library of Des O'Conner records down there!
There's a lot worse than child porn, murder and drugs![]()
In all fairness, if someone was suspected of being a terrorist and constructing bombs I'd damn well want the police to be able to look into this before any suspected attack took place.
There's a lot worse than child porn, murder and drugs![]()
TOR isn't the dark web
Nobody on here wants to visit the dark web. Seriously, it's an utter evil vile place.
There's a lot worse than child porn, murder and drugs![]()
Think about the poor sod that reads your browser history.
Wont happen. The economy would collapse without encryption, no internet payments would be a humongous hit in this day and age.
They'd have a hard time trying to deduce what the hell I am.![]()
If they all do that, the argument that the stuff in the OP would lead to a risk of people having their internet history ~hacked~ seems to be worrying about the horse after it's already bolted.
It's easy to come up with a solution to this.
Let's say all your data is encrypted twice. Once using a key that can be decrypted by the target website, so e-commerce can be performed.
Then again (the same data) encrypted with a government key and sent to government servers for real-time processing. All done transparently by your router, maybe.
And it's a criminal offence not to use a government approved router, or to use software encryption.
There's always a solution, if you are a government that really wants to see inside all our data. Not saying this is likely, but who knows what's coming. The road to total surveillance is walked in small steps.
The one problem for Government is the communications via Google twitter et al. I am sure that they do not really want your back hisory on sexual proclivities however fascinating, but who you may be communicating with.
To do this, they have to unencrypt the servers from all of the above and I can guarantee that if the US Gov. is not given blanket access, the UK Gov. will not have it either.
Everything you post originates on your PC or your phone. There is no communication between twitter users, etc, that can't be intercepted as a communication between you and twitter.
They don't need twitter to give them access to their servers /if/ they go down the route of processing every packet originating from your PC/phone.
This is obviously not something we're going to see in the near future. For now, as you say, it's much more practical to forge relationships between government and twitter, than it is to monitor all the world's traffic
But in future? Who knows. I'll admit it's unlikely. Or is it? Yes, it is.
The proposed legislation will make it a legal requirement for telecoms and internet service providers to retain all of the web browsing history for all customers for a period of 12 months, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Also, even with a warrant - You cannot see social media message content from a client<>endpoint capture, it's encrypted. The only way that is getting out is if the actual social media platform plays ball and discloses it directly from servers. Facebook wont in most circumstances for example.
Is it any more than they currently store anyway? What do they currently store? What's the gap?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#United_Kingdom
So technically easy enough for them to have done it already, no?
Even so...it's still a huge amount of data to store and manage. As an ISP I would be pretty annoyed at picking up the bill for that![]()