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How the British used a laundromat in Northern Ireland to find explosives
- bapbap 18y agoYay, Northern Ireland!
- lacker 18y agoThey bugged every single new car going into Northern Ireland? I guess the British are willing to infringe on pretty much anyone's privacy in order to catch terrorists.
- bapbap 18y agoIndeed, though I can't believe they had the resources to bug every single car, let alone listen to the transmissions, assuming keyword recognition or similar wasn't about.
- huhtenberg 18y agoThey didn't need to listen to all transmissions. They knew which cars they wanted to listen to. Their problem was how to bug them, because presumably cars were bought through a 3rd party and with immediate, on a spot delivery.
- helveticaman 18y agoThey might have been able to bug all the cars that went through their dock, and then recover bugs that went into cars that weren't important.
- mleonhard 18y agoOr just leave them in all the cars until one of those filthy proles... err citizens commits a crime.
- Herring 18y agoThey might say the same about us after our warrantless wiretapping episode. That outcry was one big waste. Public transportation in my city now has cameras installed. Maybe the british are just a decade ahead.
- DougBTX 18y agoHave you seen the articles about tracking all web, email and mobile communication in the UK? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/UKgovernment/Parliament/DG_078075 http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/UKgo... (via /.)
- helveticaman 18y agoSee, this is what the US needs: a secret service that doesn't destroy people's privacy or break in in the middle of the night but actually gets its job done.
- pmorici 18y agoDon't kid yourself the UK is one of the most heavily monitors countries in the word. What with all the cameras they have there.