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I'm not so sure about Twitter's specific role, but the easy availability of online stories does make a massive difference. If you want to see a much more succes
by petewarden 17y ago
I'm not so sure about Twitter's specific role, but the easy availability of online stories does make a massive difference. If you want to see a much more successful attempt to gag the British press, check out the Spycatcher nonsense:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher
That was 1987, and the main difference was the lack of easy access to foreign controlled media from within the UK made it possible to prevent people reading anything about the allegations in the book. This latest attempt shows that's no longer possible.
- anigbrowl 17y agoHN readers might find that interesting, not only because of the legal ramifications but because SpyCatcher detailed much (not all) of the UK security services' use of public key cryptography, around the same time that PGP was starting to gain traction in the US and the US government attempted to label the algorithm as a 'munition'. Lovers of cloak-and-dagger spycraft were rather disappointed in the book but it's interesting, if dated, for anyone with an interest in strong crypto.