Posts by Dan 55

Re: Begins with A, ends in N

If web/phone merchants use it, they shouldn't store it, just make the transaction and forget it. Amazon UK doesn't ask for it when you add a card and doesn't ask for it when you buy something.

Unless they think something's up with your card?

Well El Reg has often not linked to websites in the past precisely because they were dodgy. I think this would be another one that falls into that category, especially with modern browsers helpfully pre-fetching pages unless you specifically tell them not to.

Good job this is December, in January you might wonder if you wanted that site in your Internet Connection Record.

Re: Goldsmith lost in Richmond because of it. Apparently.

She hasn't even taken the oath yet and she's talking about using Parliament to override a democratic vote. Shameful.

Parliament has the last word in all domestic law. That's the way the democratic vote in the UK works.

Re: Codification of existing practice?

The charter allows any one of 48 government departments to get a list of all servers visited from your ISPs (broadband and mobile) and from there query the servers belonging to CSPs they've served a notice to which forces them to cooperate. That's not existing practice.

Re: Think for a minute

In your example, there was a solution: block/blacklist the numbers and report to police showing the phone as evidence.

Re: What planet do these people live on?

How can you take on a position of power/responsibility and not have a clue about how the modern world around you actually works?

By studying PPE at Oxford university and joining the Oxford University Conservative Association, along with Bojo and Cameron.

Re: This is the last backdoor

What sense does it have to ban sexting between two 16 or 17 year olds who are having sex? When was sexting prosecuted if it wasn't a case of revenge porn? Do over 17s never do revenge porn?

At the very least the suggestions could be made to make the law more sensible instead of exacerbating its problems and forcing digital ID by the back door.

Re: FB, Google, Twitter etc release our data anyway

There usually has to be a court order. The govt would just like to stick someone's details in and get a list back from every ISP and communications provider in the country for that person.

Re: Stazi

Don't know, but choose wisely in the 2020 elections. Whoever gets in will inherit this modern-day Stasi snoop infrastructure. No major party should be trusted with it, as soon as they get in they'll start thinking about what they can do to improve it... but imagine Paul Nutter at the wheel.

It'll all be kept. Making exceptions for a handful of people is easier in the client which queries the ISP databases than in each ISP.

And then there'll be some Konami code in the client which removes the exceptions, because someone will want that.

Perhaps everyone should change their name by deed poll to Prince Andrew.

Re: So who's to blame?

It's not working nicely with other routers either, check out the Google Product Forums for a list of complaints a mile long.

I think testing for port 7547 yourself using e.g. GRC's Shields Up would be faster? (Somebody confirm this please)

Re: The sound you hear are the snorring pigs

it places UK courts + European law above UK law as determiend by Parliament.

No, the HR Act means the UK courts must abide by the EConventionHR that the UK ratified in 1953. Most western countries have an equivalent to the HR Act which means that cases don't need to be escalated to the ECourtHR.

Re: The sound you hear are the snorring pigs

The Human Rights Act is a purely domestic piece of legislation which requires UK courts to make judgements in a way that is compatible with the ECHR. It can be repealed or replaced by any UK government that chooses, with no impact whatsoever on EU membership.

The UK is bound by human rights rulings made by the ECJ until it leaves the EU. It would still be bound by rulings made by the ECourtHR even if it left the EU.

If the Human Rights Act were repealed it would mean there's a pretty big hurdle as courts could make judgements in a way that is not compatible with the EConventionHR and someone would need to take it all the way up to the ECourtHR. Whackypedia says the average cost would be 30 grand and the average time 5 years. So beware of any government or minister which says or have said they want to repeal that act.

Oh bugger, that's the PM.