> On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:07:03 GMT, Mike Jones <Not@Arizona.Bay> wrote:
>
>> Responding to Blackwater:
>>
>> [...]
>>>
>>> Some trivial searching failed to reveal just HOW the Brits intend to
>>> monitor so many computers ... and I'll bet it's gonna become a HUGE
>>> number, maybe all, with computers doing the up-front work looking for
>>> 'suspicious' stuff. No doubt they've already created their own
>>> version of CIPAV or they wouldn't be so gung-ho/ready-to-go about
>>> this whole project.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Go look up "Phorm".
>
> I've been following the Phorm wars on the BBC site
> for awhile now.
>
> What gets me is how the nation that spawned Orwell
> is so easily, so completely, giving in to the
> surveillance state. Having been well-warned about
> the dangers of cliffs, they rush towards them
> like drunken lemmings ... convinced that a Better
> Britain lies beyond.
>
>> Peck here to begin >> http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=phorm
>>
>> And beware, NebuAd in the USA is pretty much the same thing.
>
> At least here they generally have to TRICK us ...
> make software and systems that SEEM safe, SEEM
> secure - beartraps covered with tasty candy
> sprinkles. But the poor Brits - they can't help
> but KNOW what they're getting into ... and still
> do it. They won't be happy until they flush their
> loo and there's a camera lens lookin' up at them.

Agreed! It is quite amazing that a nation would sit back and allow
this to happen to them. Only when the government genocide begins will
they wake up to fight for themselves.