Submitted by Richard Rothwell (not verified) on 8 May, 2009 - 11:30.
The Government Communication Head Quarters press release officially stated that it is not spying on our Internet usage...
"GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain, or to target everyone in the UK. Similarly, GCHQ has no ambitions, expectations or plans for a database or databases to store centrally all communications data in Britain."
Note the two words I've emphasised - so they could well be planning store the vast majority of our internet use and phone calls on a distributed database. Requiring the ISPs to open up their databases through some agreed interface would create the distributed database...
This brings to mind Sir Humphrey Appleby in "Yes Prime Minister"...
'The first rule of politics: never believe anything until it's been officially denied.'
Never believe anything
The Government Communication Head Quarters press release officially stated that it is not spying on our Internet usage...
"GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain, or to target everyone in the UK. Similarly, GCHQ has no ambitions, expectations or plans for a database or databases to store centrally all communications data in Britain."
Note the two words I've emphasised - so they could well be planning store the vast majority of our internet use and phone calls on a distributed database. Requiring the ISPs to open up their databases through some agreed interface would create the distributed database...
This brings to mind Sir Humphrey Appleby in "Yes Prime Minister"...
'The first rule of politics: never believe anything until it's been officially denied.'