boothy wrote:
yeah, hence i said “we already knew”
an extra reminder doesn’t hurt
what has changed is the nature of the surveillance
in 2002 it was the odd bobby looking from a police connection in their spare time or on Saturday afternoon (it was simple enough to identify them as there are certain ISPs which only take big public sector contracts rather than home users)
now they are using civillian consultants who have enough tech knowledge to look like “any other user” and also trying to work out profiles about “what sort of person puts on raves or attends them”. I wouldn’t be surprised if a few ex-ravers who work in IT are taking on jobs like this!
the money for this, particularly in East Anglia is coming from the anti-terrorism budget as there isn’t a big problem with radicalised British Asians round here despite an ethnically diverse community..
there is a lesson to be learned from what elretardo has in his signature..
