Ex-GCHQ spy chief lands defence giant gig

Thales = Racal Recorders

Makers of multichannel digital voice recorders, which no doubt are used extensively using GCHQ's mass surveillance.

http://www.businesssystemsuk.co.uk/call_recording_large_overview.asp

480 channels

Looking at that Racal Recorder voice recorder, say your average person speaks for 15 minutes a day on the phone, and there are 12 awake hours in the day when people call, that's 1,382,400 people's conversations that can be recorded.

i.e. 60 of those buggers is all that's needed now to record everyones conversations in the UK.

Ahh but it can only record 280,000 channel hours, which I guess means 580 hours per channel, or 24 days worth before the data needs moved off the recorder onto a file system.

Ahh the march of technology, Privacy Rights need to maintain-capability against intrusive surveillance by overzealous political-appointee-run departments of state.

What are those guys on? Reticent Depressents

"The ABCA's goals are to "avoid the risk that an employer might gain an improper advantage by appointing a former official who holds information about its competitors, or about impending government policy" and "avoid any suspicion that an appointment might be a reward for past favours"." ........ What a Dreadful Waste and Crazy Misue of Future Potential Creating Disadvantage

Virtual Therapy SAStyle with Master Boers in Play ........ Perfumed Garden Farmers on Delicate AIMissions ......

And with regard to the GCHQ Cyber Security Operations Centre, does it have one of those "IT Needs to be Crazy to Work Well From Here" Advisory Signs above All Sensitive Key Domains/Virtual Spider Networks.