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Quite a lot of them would be in favour of it as a means of "fighting terrorism". It's not so much what is reported as how it's spun.

The really big thing is the "internet connection record": every TCP connection you make is supposed to be logged by the ISP: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

(just look at that list of justifications. Of course! It's about catching paedos! The all purpose justification for everything.)

Besides, it's been buried under the bigger politics news of the moment - Trump and the continuing mystery of Brexit.

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This sounds like a potential (new?) attack type though. Just have software that pings certain illegal websites and bam - the target is now a paedo or whatever the attacker wishes.

Come visit my website! Make sure you have JavaScript enabled, friend! :o)

Overcomplicated, just send 'em an email with an <img> link.

In the UK you can already go to prison for refusing to hand over the password to encrypted data. The thing is, anything can be encrypted data. So in theory someone can say that you have encrypted child pornography on your drive, and theoretically, you can go to prison for refusing to give your password to it, even if it doesn't exist.

Generating fake evidence to blackmail someone? No one would do that. They are too busy chasing terrorists.

For those that don't understand this comment, intelligence agencies are known for generating fake evidence and allegations to take down targets - and it's well known that intelligence agencies such as the NSA and GCHQ are not charged with missions to track down terrorists.

A very clever sarcastic comment I think will probably go under the radar because the OP omitted a "/s".

its all misuse of language. a spade should be called spade. Here is a situation, the people staying in their own country and fighting against outside forces. Who is real terrorist? Those outside forces that have no business being there in the first place are the ones doing real terrorizing. The war on terrorism is just a double speak. Its war for profits for political and monetary gains.

If as much as 10% of the energy and money spent for all this nonsense was actually used to fight poverty and improve infrastructure and research, we would've been technologically advanced to year 2100 already!

I accepted long time ago I will never be let into the US because of those HN comments, so...

If you regularly kill civilians at random with high explosives, with no way for them to even know something bad will happen, to the point you instill in them the fear of a clear blue sky, isn't that terrorism?

Hello drone strikes in Pakistan...

One fighting man is a terrorist. Thousand fighting men makes an army.

No, it makes a terrorist organization.

(Also, there's zero fighting men on the shooting side, under these conditions it's more like people taking potshots with Hellfires).

I think you all are missing the bitter irony in the parent's comment.

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