It was never going to be long before these scum re-emerged.

Technically ignorant and never having to spend a penny of their own money on their grandiose schemes.

It's amazing what you can come up with if you have a PPE, a little imagination and *no* understanding of technology.

It's high time we had a revolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution

Medieval is the new New.

Secure communications with your chums? Sealing wax and a stamp will be your friend.

For anyone who doesn't know this, steganography is useful too.

Just write anything you need to in notepad, save it, and then zip/rar/7z the document.

Then do this:

Start -> Run -> cmd -> copy /b image_of_your_choice.jpg+text_file_name.zip C:\output.jpg

All someone needs to do now is change output.jpg to output.zip and extract the files!

This might not work for larger files though.

/facepalm

Like the vast majority of commentators, I saw this on the BBC website and thought it was an April Fool's prank. To my horror, it really is going to be passed as law.

It is not just the invasiveness and scope that concerns me, as well as the lack of accountability (cornerstone of our legal system - although Habeus Corpeus has been under attack with extended right to detain), but the billions of pounds that will inevitably be wasted under the guise of yet another massive IT contract with poor scope, poor execution and total disregard for Total Cost of Ownership, and like the national ID cards, another pet project that will spectacularly fail to meet the main pillar supporting its rationale.

HS2

Energy strategy (lack thereof)

In these times of so-called austerity and cuts in various social services, trust politicians of ALL stripes, to think of yet more ingenious ways to waste money on projects with nebulous ends.

Word of warning: take a look across the channel at our French chums, and the success of Marie Le Pen. The National Front were the 3rd biggest party in the 70s - when people become disgruntled with mainstream politics, the fringe parties gain a degree of legitimacy.

Good grief! Does this mean I'm forced to vote Green at General Elections?! Or the most respectable Monster Raving Looney Party?

this is what happens when someone thinks Spooks is a documentary

Discovers it is not and decides "F**k it lets make it happen."

Britards you need to rescue your elected leaders from their state of fear.

Consider writing to your MP's. Tell them *why* it's expensive, it's *grossly* disproportionate, it'll dump even the *rudimentary* oversight of the Surveillance Commissioner in favor of *unlimited* dumping of every comms log (which is essentially what is being proposed) from *every* comms provider (remind them how f**king expensive this storage will be)

Every day...

...and in every way, I come to fear my own "elected" government than the terrorists.

I say "elected" as almost all the MPs come from the same morally bankrupt, public-school educated, elitist, holier-than-thou social class. They have no concept of the real world.

Freedom is a weapon. A weapon of the people against a corrupt regime. This is why our government wished to remove it from our grasp.

With the Queen's Assent ?

INAL but didn't the queen swear an oath to protect her subject's liberties during her coronation ?

Wouldn't announcing such an anti-libertarian law on live TV (and thereby giving her implied assent to it) be in direct contradiction to her Coronation Oath ?

It seems the Queen may need to be reminded that Liberty is not the same as Safety. Keeping us safe at the expense of our liberties is not what her subjects expect of Her or her Government. We should be striving for a balance between the those two things. Even then liberty without safety is far more preferable to safety without liberty - that is ultimately a prison.

As the final arbiter of Law in this land it is surely time that the Queen started to protect us from such unjust laws, not for her to be promoting them live on TV.