India plans its own net snoop system On the anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, the Indian government has announced its own version of the UK's Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) - a massive expansion of communications surveillance for the internet age. A pilot of the Centralised Monitoring System (CMS) will begin by June next year, communications …
...they'd refrain from hoarding as much data as they can. Apparently not. I can't really blame them for wanting the ability to tap, but wanting to keep the data indefinitely isn't very nice.
No word on how the tapping orders are actually executed. This would be a wonderful opportunity to make the hardware require and verify a warrant digitally signed by a judge, but that is probably also too reasonable to expect.
indian intelligence is the biggest oxymoron in history. it don't mean squat anyway. those bastard terrorists will still get a chance to get through and it's the average indian joe or hari who's going to suffer. unless of course he's got enough dosh to pay the most corrupt set of sleaze bags to ever walk the planet.
slime balls so corrupt they'll gladly let you sleep with their mothers if your money is good enough.
anonymous because.....
where the fuck is the black helicopter icon when you need one? oh well it's FAIL and double FAIL because we indians are just a pathetic bunch of losers with dicks so small, you'll need a microscope to see one even when we're excited.
oh and btw, i love vijay mallya. he's done more to make us happy than any other indian who ever walked God's green earth.
"Of *course* we only record the telecomms data, not the actual message. Although to determin that the message is harmless we will have deep packet inspect *every* packets contents.
But we won't record them.
Unless the law changes of course."*
Standard Home Office b&***cks press release repeated ad nausum.
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