Re: UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

It's worked better than in France, Germany, and the UK, which have each,
in the same period, had some pretty tyrannical governments, and the UK
seems to be heading down that path again.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drsolly [mailto:drsollyp () drsolly com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 11:54 PM
> To: Tomas L. Byrnes
> Cc: Peter Evans; funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile Phones
>
> Didn't work though, did it.
>
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
>
> > Hence the reason the founders of the US, Englishmen all until the
> > Declaration of Independence, felt the need to explicitly declare the
> > rights of man, and limit those of government.
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-
> bounces () linuxbox org]
> > > On Behalf Of Peter Evans
> > > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:55 PM
> > > To: funsec () linuxbox org
> > > Subject: Re: [funsec] UK: Passports Will Be Needed to Buy Mobile
> Phones
> > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:08:37AM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> > > > Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register
> their
> > > > identity on a national database under government plans to extend
> > > massively
> > > > the powers of state surveillance.
> > >
> > > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969312.ece
> > > > This is perhaps the craziest f'ing thing I have ever heard of...
> > >
> > >    1984
> > >
> > >    Because this is British Government, you're lucky it's only a
> > > quarter of
> > >    a century late.
> > >
> > >    Not quite up to "Brazil" yet.
> > >
> > >
> > >    P
> > >
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