[Nottingham] Considering the last talk...

[stripes]

When I came to live in the UK twenty odd years ago it was a relatively
free county but since then it has slipped into George Orwell's
nightmare vision of 1984. I find it sad that the only person on the
list that seems to be able to see this is Sergiusz Pawlowicz, maybe
because he lived under oppression in communist Poland and can see
Britain going that way fast. The computer laws in the UK probably
criminalize all of us if the police really want them too. I'm sure
most of us have an encrypted zip file somewhere we  have forgotten the
password to for example, I know I have.

I also tend to think that if someone hacks into a secured router to
upload porn the police are going to cause you a lot more grief than if
your router was open.



On 1 May 2011 09:28, ForkBombFluf <fluf at freeshell.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 May 2011, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
>
>> OK, so I have found numbers [0]. There are ~1200 children sex
>> offenders in the UK, it means one per 203 square kilometres. Let us
>> say one tenth of them is related to production of images you are
>> trying to convince me is essential to keep my wifi military protected.
>> It gives one per 2000 square kilometres.
>>
>> S.
>>
>> [0]
>> http://www.clusterweb.org.uk/UserFiles/KSCB/File/Resources_and_Library/MAPPA_The_1st_5_yrs_01-06.pdf
>
> But let's also not forget that those 1200 will tend to be clustered around
> telephone poles, so the actual distribution will depend upon telephone poles
> per unit of area itself.  (Telephone poles, which cause babies of course, if
> you're into that whole correlation equals causation thing.)
>
> So remember to set up your open access point as far away from any telephone
> pole as is possible.  :-)
>
> (The bill for my provision of this insightful information service to you is
> in the post, by the way.  Please excuse the "Dirk Gently's Holistic
> Detective Agency" letterhead-- that was us trying to save money by using the
> former owner's paper up.)
>
> Cheerz,
>
> -Stef
>
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