[Gllug] Proxy awareness campaign

[Jim Bailey]

Even if we did all this it wouldn't stop the 'bad guys' for those of you 
with memories will remember the BCCI banking scandal in the late 80's?  
How many of you remember a warehouse fire 3 months before the 
investigation which took out all the banks back records, coincidence?

On a more recent note the current Nigerian regime is trying to recover 3 
billion in embezzeled funds stolen by the previous regime.  A lot of this 
money went through the city before ending up in the ubiquitous numbered 
bank accounts. however the FSA (Futures and Securities Authority are 
having trouble tracing these transactions due to incorrect administrative 
procedures.

This behavior is from some of the bastion organisations of our culture and 
civilisation.  I guess this decade is going to be about fighting for the 
freedoms we currently possess and if your imagination and intelligence can 
see that far, other peoples freedoms and desires so that we can all share 
the peace and prosperity that has been ours for so long.  Alternatively 
put your money where your mouth is and join the .NET generation.

Peace Jim

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin

On Monday, October 22, 2001, at 11:43 AM, gllug at codex.net wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, William Palfreman wrote:
>
>> I can.  The government's latest insane pig-in-the-comms-room is that
>> every ISP keep every single bit of email, logs, all recorded traffic, for
>> 7 years, else your friendly sysadmin is jailed.  With no proxy there are
>> many fewer records to keep.  If you really have enough cash you could buy
>> a couple of satellite links to a third country, and keep all your servers
>> there.  No UK based servers = no logs[0], and no prison sentences for us
>> all just because a fire took out 4 year old tapes.
>>
>> Bill.
>>
>> [0] Switch off your router and switch logs too :-)
>
>
> and if we're really lucky, maybe the nice people at the ISP's will start
> sending users bill's for new disks, to store all your data on.  I dont
> understand how anyone can be foolish enough to believe that such a system
> like this is ever going to work.  the actual physical requirements are
> going to be obscene.  maybe it;s just what the disk manufacturing corps
> want?
>
> I'm still attempting to fathom who's going to pay for all this.  you can
> be damn sure the govt wont be, which means the companies will, which means
> the cost gets pushed onto the consumer.  This whole system we live in
> stinks.
>
> The more and more dumb laws like this are used, the more and more people
> will get pissed off.  eventually *something* will happen.  precisely what,
> i dont know.
>
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