EU adopts data retention
EU adopts data retention
Posted Dec 14, 2005 16:59 UTC (Wed) by copsewood (subscriber, #199)Parent article: EU adopts data retention
The tech needed to take a users data outside the scope of this already exists: OpenVPN and using virtual machine servers, e.g. http://unixshell.com/ located outside the EU. Unless they make renting a VM outside the EU and operating a VPN illegal this directive will only harm the innocent and will be of no use in tracking smart criminals.
Posted Dec 14, 2005 17:06 UTC (Wed)
by rmayr (subscriber, #16880)
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Posted Dec 14, 2005 17:54 UTC (Wed)
by ringlord (guest, #6309)
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Posted Dec 14, 2005 18:07 UTC (Wed)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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Posted Dec 14, 2005 18:20 UTC (Wed)
by rmayr (subscriber, #16880)
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Posted Dec 14, 2005 18:29 UTC (Wed)
by tgb (guest, #745)
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If someone wanted to protect themselves to the point of buying prepaid sim cards regularly, they could replace their mobile, e.g. via ebay, regularly too (it's just an example, I can see that given enough transactions then purchases could be linked together too...).
Posted Dec 15, 2005 13:17 UTC (Thu)
by mmarq (guest, #2332)
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Havent you guessed yet ?
YES you can laugh, but take it seriously!...
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/money/ecr-pem/ch1.htm
...because under heavy DRM internet control posting those links above would probabily simply be not possible.
It dosent solve hollywood or the music industry problems, by the contrary,..., i guess that extrapolating by my purchasing habits if those industrys are dependent on a reasonable minimum sale volume they would be in big trouble,... and their general quality is so low that...
If and when only by DRM or other *centraly_controled* visible medium, then people will not buy them... Sonny faced a rejection recently, and things will trend to get worst about control, intrusion and piracy, to the point that now internet commerce is at the turning point to get extinct...
Music, Movies, Microsoft and other bigger software, Games are still largely based on boxed physical medium selling, so no big loss(if any at all) for the monopoly corja.
Of course it will not - even the tracking of phone calls can be avoided by EU adopts data retention
buying lots of prepaid SIMs and using them only for a short time. It is
indeed questionable which problems this directive intends to solve.
The problem is that most users will not be aware of how much data is
collected about them, let alone how to retain their privacy.
In several countries (most ?) you can't any longer buy prepaid SIM cards without registration.EU adopts data retention
Unfortunately, GSM phones have a unique serial number which is tracked along with the information from the SIM. So it is trivially easy to tie together activity using multiple SIM cards on the same handset.
Mobile tracking
True, but IMEIs can also be changed if you know what you're doing (or just Mobile tracking
use cheap throw-away phones the same way as the SIMs). My point is that
even that part of the directive will not catch professionals.
True, but it's also trivial to change the IMEI number (the unique serial number) as I understand it. In the UK most independent mobile phone shops offer "unlocking" services and from a discussion I had with such a shop owner a few years ago, the cables and software they use allows them to change pretty much anything on the phone.Mobile tracking
"" It isEU adopts data retention
indeed questionable which problems this directive intends to solve. ""
DRM protection and treacherous computing are as stupid as their strategists, and the ultimate goal can only be totalitariam control!
http://www.savethemales.ca/000275.html
Do we really live in freedom ?
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