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Originally Posted by labougie
Alex - hang on here a minute - I don't actually NEED the duct tape to stop my postman reading it because there is an assumption of privacy implicit in the postal services. Even the most malicious administration conceivable would be hard put to open and read every letter sent. We have conveniently provided the powers that be with everything we do and think in a neat digital format which is much more accessible to them, and doubtless they want this information (for reasons which remain obscure to me):
If I care to encrypt my letters, is that an automatic assumption of some form of guilt Yes/No
These are the battlelines we ought to be gearing up for.
Have a good party (and I'll be there myself) but there are MUCH larger issues at stake.
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The ISPA used the postman analogy a few months ago to say that they couldn't be expected to monitor content to detect filesharers because that would be like opening letters and it was illegal - and anyway they couldn't do it (DPI).
Now they have major members doing exactly that, who say it IS legal.