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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 18 November 2006 19:20 \__
>
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>> Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> "The Police and Justice Bill 2006 .. contains amendments to the
>>> Computer Misuse Act 1990 that alter the law surrounding the creation
>>> and distribution of 'dual use' software tools"
>>>
>>> "Part 37 of the .. Bill .. states: "A person is guilty of an offence
>>> if he supplies or offers to supply any article believing that it is
>>> likely to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an
>>> offence"
>>>
>>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39284750,00.htm
>>
>> Oh god - more laws created by people who haven't got a clue. Someone,
>> please please stop parliament from perpetrating these idiocies.
>>
>> We have passports, 3 million of them, with RFID chips which can be read
>> from yards away and decrypted fully, /exactly/ as was predicted would
>> happen. Soon it's going to be illegal to distribute standard software
>> tools in the UK, /in case/ someone finds a way of using them
>> "illegally".
>>
>> And all this time, our government continues to spend money with
>> Microsoft on software which everyone knows is insecure by design, even
>> though there are secure alternatives available for a much reduced cost.
>
> I think that Microsoft holds Blair and his mates by the balls. Honestly,
> blair is like a schoolgirl around Bill Gates.
>
One has to wonder why - perhaps it's the Lawyer in Blair who thinks he's
met a technologist in Gates?
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