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You'd wonder how we all survived in the days before the internet, when they had none of this data.
by kevcampb 11y ago
You'd wonder how we all survived in the days before the internet, when they had none of this data.
- arethuza 11y agoEasy - place bugs in 10 Downing Street: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/apr/18/mi5-bugged-10-downing-street http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/apr/18/mi5-bugged-10-down... Poor Harold Wilson - 'Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.' - he was paranoid about being bugged and it eventually turned out that they were.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoYes but Wilson was actually going mad, early onset Altzimers - its tragic and was hushed up for years out of respect for the Man. Wilson also had his own in house dirty tricks dept who fed his apatite for conspiracy theory's which did not help.
- jgrahamc 11y agoPrior to the Internet where people and spies communicated using radio, telephones, Telex, telegrams, ... those technologies were intercepted by the security services. For example, in 1967 it was revealed that in Britain all private cables into and out of the UK were being intercepted and given to the security services. There is nothing new in GCHQ's desire to have access to signals intelligence and to sift through it looking for both metadata patterns (who is talking to who) and actual contents.
- thomasrossi 11y agoAll internet communication in and out the transatlantic communication cable is stored and recorded, exactly like telephones were:) The amount of data is so huge that unencrypting it is quite boring. They are getting lazy dis days;P have it plain text would be nicer.. lol?