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- borez, on 06/24/2009, -0/+23What the ***** is all this talk about what it will take to "close down power stations and communications including air transport" There is no access to these systems over the internet, do they think we're entirely ***** stupid. Next they'll be trying to tell us you can launch ICBM's from the department of defence FTP site.
And what is this talk of "the national computer network" as in the government already owns it? You don't. Period.
I spy another way of governmental monitoring and controlling of our internet. Luckily for us ( in the UK ) when it comes to the internet and large scale networking our government has no ***** idea what it is talking about. - Flann11, on 06/24/2009, -0/+23Why the hell are we naming all of our department heads czars? It means emperor ... this is becoming a tad ridiculous.
- Tob3z, on 06/24/2009, -1/+14Bet they have no ***** clue as to how the internet works in the real world.
- mtrem225, on 06/24/2009, -0/+13It's either Tsar or Czar.... Tzar and Csar are not acceptable.
- jasonbalmforth, on 06/24/2009, -0/+13If terrorist hackers truly wish to paralyze the UK and bring all public and economic life to a standstill, all they have to do is figure out a way to make one quarter of an inch of snow fall right across the country using the internet. We'll do the rest.
This is merely a pretext for increased future internet surveillance of private citizens under the guise of combating terrorism. - Flann11, on 06/24/2009, -0/+9That's how they do it, take your rights piece by little piece, so minute and downplayed that no one bothers to say a word. They're masters at the game.
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+9Salem witch trials all over again...the way they scream terrorist every time they stick the knife in a little deeper.
- Zylog, on 06/24/2009, -0/+9This is the lousiest excuse I ever heard. They are using the infamous 'terrorism' excuse to get this passed to put infront of your privacy. Usually these laws have some small text that probably states 'isps must log all data' or something. But as always, nobody will go against the system
- Zoids, on 06/24/2009, -0/+8Do they think we are stupid? Of course they do!
- Zoids, on 06/24/2009, -0/+8The Daily Wail readers will lap it all up though. Admittedly a good chunk of government computers are connected to the internet but they are just workstations, they don't control anything.
- RiotHeart, on 06/24/2009, -3/+10Can I be the Fapping tzar?
- frieddonuts, on 06/24/2009, -0/+7It's a political marketing fad...it really isn't anything new. I think it's as much the media's fault as it is the government's.
- yocouchdigga, on 06/25/2009, -1/+7a "Tzar" is a sentient Tazer.
- inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+5WTF is a 'Tzar'?
- isunktheship, on 06/24/2009, -2/+7it's a series of tubes, ez.
- tgc1, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4They're still using the same playbook from the middle ages. Whereas back then people were generally uneducated and could not read, let alone figure out the internet. They haven't caught up to the fact that we're light years beyond them at this point.
- tgc1, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4Coming to a computer user near you, complete internet encryption. It won't matter if the ISP is keeping tabs on your traffic when its all encrypted. Because it'll all be nonsense.
"What is he doing?"
"Well sir... umm... we don't know"
"What do you mean you don't know? Aren't you monitoring his tubes?"
"It's nonsense sir... it's all nonsense"
"Let me see that... My god! It's like a box of alphabets exploded on the paper."
"Precisely sir... chaos. The tubes are all over the place." - inactive, on 06/24/2009, -0/+3I would laugh hysterically if someone hacked into this Tzar's e-mail (or any other computery thing he owns/does).
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3"Tzar" has to be the most assinine title in contemporary politics.
- ZaZ2137, on 06/24/2009, -0/+3I think you mean a day of sunlight, seriously, I lived in the UK for 3 years and maybe saw a dozen days worth of sunlight. And it snowed every year.
- motters, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3We don't need any more Tsars on the payroll...we just need someone who understands what the word "hacking" actually means.
- yocouchdigga, on 06/24/2009, -4/+7May I be the Bacon Czar?
- jasonbalmforth, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3I've lived here all my life, I'm 38. Things are so incapably run here these days that a small amount of snow leads to all manner of lunacy, public transport is disrupted, schools close for days, emergency services restrict themselves to life threatening cases only and every malingerer uses it as an excuse not to turn up for work.
Our country is at the same latitude as Siberia and the Labrador coast yet every year without fail we seem to get caught with our summer issue pants down by frankly laughable snow-falls, the kind that Scandinavians probably wouldn't even notice. Anyone who lives here will understand exactly what I'm talking about. - borez, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Now there's an idea worth pursuing.
Actually wait... they'd use that as an excuse for tighter control. - borez, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Very true, trouble is though we're not.
- vednode, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2I say USA counters with Stallman, then we're set.
- sej7278, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2yup, the only future for the internet is as a series of vpn's and ssh tunnels i reckon.
can't be long before all websites switch to https surely (that'll ***** phorm too!)
jabber has ssl encryption for IM.
imap, pop3 and smtp all have ssl/tls options for secure email, plus there's gnupg/pgp/smime for encrypting the message, not just the transport (although pgp and smime have reportedly nsa backdoors, being commerical). - motters, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1With the way things have been going I wouldn't be surprised if your prediction comes true.
- nickem, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1"Next they'll be trying to tell us you can launch ICBM's from the department of defense FTP site"
...shhhhh! - jasonbalmforth, on 06/24/2009, -0/+1I am.
- RatatRatR, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1Yeah, maybe you can get together with the last guy and jack each other off.
- dsmx, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1no it's a big dump truck.
- Trader76, on 07/24/2009, -0/+0only way to think about security is to get rid of old av products and move to
bps or www.bluepointsecurity.com - ohreilly, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1Will he become a Lord?
The current Labour cabinet seems to be filled to the brim with unelected Lords - I guess their own MPs want nothing to do with Brown. - sej7278, on 06/25/2009, -0/+0its the same as how they get p2p monitored - they just say its full of paedo's and terrorists.
- kwhatcher, on 07/20/2009, -0/+0What wee need is a new way of thinking computer security. Just found this. Very promising!
http://digg.com/d1xAZU - whoreable, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1FACEPALM. Anything can be hacked.
- YojanV, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1"Right then, employees. Your job is to go through these tubes of internet and remove *anything* that exposes the incompetent, asinine, scapegoating government as the pile of ***** it is. This is protecting the UK from the most dangerous terrorists in the world...
*Michael Bay style slow-mo and drum-roll*
... it's own people." - Sillywombat, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1Great, im assuming this is going to be a big thing 7 years down the line.
We've now got another Big brother section to keep us in nice little tidy lines.
Im pretty sure hacking is piracy in the eyes of an MP.
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