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BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it

DaggleN8

Much as I love all your elegant scientific and statistical theories a few facts are the most salient.

There where as few as 160 requests for detection use in 2015.

Detection evidence has never been used in a prosecution for licence evasion.

The stated reason for this was that it was only used to obtain search warrants, however no case of a search warrant being used as a result of detection evidence is known.

In other words it is not detection itself that is the virus its the threat of detection.

What I find amazing is that the British state can go on pretending that there is some kind of technolicy out there that nobody knows ab

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