[pp.int.general] FRA Warning

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/12/31 Per von Zweigbergk <per.von.zweigbergk at piratpartiet.se>:
> On January 1, 2009, the FRA-law (Lex Orwell) comes into effect in Sweden.
> This is the law that empowers the Swedish National Defense Radio
> Establishment (Försvarets Radio-anstalt / FRA) to intercept any and all
> international communications based on "advanced search terms".

Don't you believe they've been waiting for the law to pass before
doing this? IMO they're already listening :-)

2008/12/31 Per von Zweigbergk <per.von.zweigbergk at piratpartiet.se>:

> Really, encryption like GnuPG isn't really relevant here. What FRA is most
> interested in, is to build "sociograms" -- diagrams detailing who is
> communicating with whom. When using a system like GnuPG, the sender and
> receiver of the e-mail (and even the subject line) is visible. GnuPG does
> absolutely nothing for the possible lurkers on this e-mail list who wish to
> stay out of the Pirate Party's sociogram.

One great workaround (quite funny also):
http://spammimic.com/explain.shtml

Cheers,
Valentin