UK launches massive, one-year program to archive every email

[ElFenix]

jesus tap dancing christ on a crutch

Originally posted by: Soccer55

Originally posted by: Newbian

Wait.... you mean there is no princess? :|

<Nigerian Spammer>

Thank you Newbian! But our princess is in another castle!

</Nigerian Spammer>

win

 

[seemingly random]

Originally posted by: Mardeth
Did people even read the article? "The data retention rules require the archival of all email traffic (the identities of the sender and receiver, but not the contents of the messages)"

What would be the point of keeping who contacts who only? Anybody can contact anybody else which doesn't necessarily mean they have a relationship.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Hmm, economy in shitter. Lets spend tons of money downloading the internet!

Someone link the "downloading the internet" gif.

EDIT: Hmm, I see no potential for abuse.

Go swedes!!

Done.

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: yllus
Not a big deal since it's impossible to implement.

:shocked:

Originally posted by: Mark R

Originally posted by: yllus
Not a big deal since it's impossible to implement.

Hasn't stopped the government making it a legal requirement for all UK ISPs implement it, whatever the cost.

I've got a couple of contacts who work at IT distributors and resellers, who suggest that there have been a significant number of enquiries for Petabyte storage arrays, apparently from ISPs and other telcos.

I have no idea how much this is going to cost. But the law requires all ISPs to archive all endpoints of all communications, and the time/date it was made.
for e-mail messages, the sender and recipient(s)
for web requests, the URL
for any TCP/IP connection or stream of UDP/IP packets, the source/destination addresses and time that the communication took place over
etc.

I work in this particular industry in Canada and once in a while we get feelers about this sort of legislation occurring.

Interesting thing is, the CPU power to do this stuff has already arrived. We do more comprehensive things to e-mail passing through our system than mere logging - we look for viruses/trojans, obvious signs of spam and so forth. Storing even just the headers to these messages, however, is a whole different story. IIRC, it would bankrupt us - and that's the hedge against the legislation passing here. It would destroy the industry and leave it entirely in the hands of the very biggest players.

So while it's technically feasible, with today's storage medium prices and density (it's not just a cost in buying the drives, but in installing them in new machines that will require many more racks in our already pricey data centres) it's an impossibility.

 

[ViviTheMage]

$$$ wow

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
How is it possible that people anywhere would stand for this? Would we allow this to happen if a similar program were initiated in the US? What would we do to stop it?

Bitch about it on online forums?

which will then be archived.

"Why hello there, men in suits with sunglasses and earpieces!"

 

[Phokus]

Well, at least they're open about it... when Bush authorized illegal wiretapping, it took a whistleblower to blow the story up

Still very evil.

 

[beat mania]

I bet WD and Maxtor and that whole lot love it. They probably lobbied for it.