Big Brother Is Watching

[astroron (Ron)]

All Emails into and out of the UK to be stored for one year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7819230.stm

[erick (Eric)]

Since 90%+ seems to be spam, according to my University's spam filters, that's going to be a huge pile of garbage they store!

[JethroB76 (Jeff)]

They just want to get all the good deals on offer for "member enlargements" etc..

[Ric]

Geez, how big will that hard drive be?

[Glenn Dawes]

Originally Posted by Ric

Geez, how big will that hard drive be?

Well it makes floppy drives a thing of the past

[Jen]

that will be a lot of emails

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

Originally Posted by JethroB76

They just want to get all the good deals on offer for "member enlargements" etc..

yeah, i get keeping all these emails asking me about making certain parts of my anatomy larger ....

i just want to know who spilled the beans and told them ...

[GrahamL]

I thought echelons supercomputers
( And you thought they only play chess)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
could with some modification to suit todays world probably sift through most of the worlds
electronic traffic and pick out key words and phrases for further scrutiny.


nah they wouldn't do that

[mick pinner]

ah terrorism, western governments best friend.

[Ric]

Originally Posted by Glenn Dawes

Well it makes floppy drives a thing of the past

[Jen]

Originally Posted by toryglen-boy

yeah, i get keeping all these emails asking me about making certain parts of my anatomy larger ....

i just want to know who spilled the beans and told them ...