>Cameron, still speaking in the Commons, says he does not believe it is acceptable that there should be internet communications that authorities are not permitted to intercept. The government should legislate on this, he adds.
Honestly, I'm rather angry. An innocent man hacked to death in the street, and the murder is being used by politicians to openly further the goals of the security services, who may have actually recruited the murderer. Cynical fucking bastards.
Authorities can in practice permit themselves to do anything they damn well want, I'm not under any illusions otherwise. But I want to do everything I can to try to make sure that neither they nor anyone else are able to perform mass surveillance - because I know damned well there is now no other way of stopping such grossly horrendous violations of everyone's inalienable rights to privacy. They lie routinely; they have no oversight, no accountability, no limits, no apologies, no truths, and absolutely no hope of reform inside a system that is not even prepared to acknowledge what it is doing is wrong, let alone stop it.
Talk is cheap, but I will state now that no legislation of any kind will stop me trying to develop, publish, advocate and deploy strong encryption and anti-surveillance techniques everywhere that I can: places where such techniques are illegal are uniformly the places that need it most. Maybe trying to bring a little more 'civil liberty through complex mathematics' is all I can do: but it's something.
Unfortunately we live in an age of idiocy where anyone will sell their soul for a smaller fee and less privacy. There's no winning against that so you have to deal with this from the inside of the enemy via "legitimate sabotage"
a) get into hiring positions in the government and hire the stupidest, least qualified and incompetent people you can get then quit and leave the projects in the shit.
b) spend money galore so it cant be used on anything else
c) leak insider information on the sly.
d) use the tools you built against the people who paid for them.
e) manipulate and shame other staff out of positions of power.
f) play people off against each other and create new rivalry which consumes all money and time.
I worked for the defence industry. This is how to break it.
The Lee Rigby inquest just happens to be coinciding with the government trying to push through their latest Snooper Charter of surveillance laws [1].
You don't even have to be particularly cynical to put two and two together...
It's pretty disgusting of the government to exploit Rigby's death by scapegoating the blame for not catching this guy - who was known to MI5 - on internet firms.
PS: Some claims neither need citation nor can possibly provide it. Are you seriously suggesting someone get a quote from David Cameron saying "I'm a sneaky bastard who's going to exploit this situation"?
EDIT: I just realised you may be referring to the "recruitment" part of that quote. Apparently MI5 tried to recruit one of the killers as an informant when he came back to England after being jailed in Kenya for trying to join a terrorist group. Here's a reference to the report [2] page 44-ish. It's all rumours as it's national security, ie. neither confirm nor deny, but there's usually no smoke without fire on these things...
>Cameron, still speaking in the Commons, says he does not believe it is acceptable that there should be internet communications that authorities are not permitted to intercept. The government should legislate on this, he adds.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2014/nov/25/lee-rigb...