James King wrote:
> By UK law *all* internet traffic has to be routed through GCHQ
> - the goverments spying agency.... and internet survice providers
> are suppose to keep copies of all internet traffic for X number
> of months... - without the government paying anything for the
> massive storage costs!
I'm quite sure this is not the law; and it's certainly not done.
IMHO GCHQ don't know their arse from their elbow when it comes to
digital surveiallance. My father-in-law works there for that department,
so I have some relatively close-hand knowledge about what they're up to.
Clearly he can't comment openly, but let's say that the little
technology they do have goes into trying to target effetively what they
monitor, rather than even trying to monitor everything, which they
acknowlege is impossible.
I'm sure ISPs don't keep a copy of all Internet traffic; not even
e-mails. Maybe they should, but it's impossible. Out own small ISP has a
couple of 100M links to Tele House running at about 40% on average. It
doesn't take much maths to work out that that's around 180 terabytes a
year. Just imagine trying to back up even 3 months' worth (45
terabytes)!?
It is impossible so it just doesn't happen.
Regards,
Simon
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