Friday 31 January 2014

Cameron is a Tit

From the BBC

"In the most serious crimes [such as] child abduction communications data... is absolutely vital. I love watching, as I probably should stop telling people, crime dramas on the television. There's hardly a crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device."

That was to a parliamentary committee: The reason we need a charter is because CSI:NY use data to find abducted children. Which if you've ever watched it is, has highly entertaining, but highly unscientific forensics. It's like saying that New Yorkers on average incomes have huge apartments because you've watched Friends and Sex and the City.

In reality doing things like deep packet inspection of data is going to yield you nothing about child abduction because it's an individual thing. No-one is out there Skyping their friends that they just abducted a child (unlike say, drug dealers who communicate with each other). The useful data is cellphone location data from either the adult or the child, and we already have that.

And even with deep packet inspection, everyone is now encrypting their data packets, so unless you've got the public key of every single site out there, you can't read them. So, you're knackered.

2 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

"It's like saying that New Yorkers on average incomes have huge apartments because you've watched Friends and Sex and the City."

That would be truly dumb. In 'Friends' two or three reasonably well paid grown ups ended up sharing a normal sized flat and bickering over who used up the last of the milk.

selsey.steve said...

No-one, least of all the Camoron, understands how the Net works and how Net surveillance can be and is being done, tell the idiot to get in touch with GCHQ. They'll let him know soon enough.