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Sweden backs official eavesdropping
SWEDEN'S PARLIAMENT has narrowly approved a controversial law that allows authorities sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all e-mail and telephone traffic that passes through the country.
The law was passed as hundreds of protesters gathered outside Parliament some handing out copies of George Orwell's novel 1984.
Supporters claim that the law will help prevent terrorist attacks. Swedish officials will be allowed to scan international phone calls, e-mails and faxes for sensitive keywords without a court order.
Local telcos have fumed that it is the most far-reaching eavesdropping plan in Europe. It is just as bad as systems set up in the 'Land of the Free' where US intelligence officers can monitor international calls and e-mails between people in the United States and suspected terrorists overseas.
The government rejects claims the law will give it unlimited powers to spy on its own people. It is interested only in international traffic and will filter out domestic communications. So that's all right then. µ
L'Inq
AP
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Ja, Lykke Li detta vara fallet. Men USA läckor i mitten när den Issimissippissi flodöversvämningar...
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Sweden, the 51st state of the Axis of Evil.
Encryption may be available, but what really worries me is why do we have to do use it in the first place. Against criminals, sure, but now we are forced to use it against our own governments as well in order to keep any shred of privacy.

Next they will prohibit encryption, then they will start re-writing the constitutions to cover any loop-holes in their powers.
It has been shown in various cases of confirmed terrorist as well as those planning terrorism that they do NOT use encryption, in fact they quite openly talk about stuff on forums often, but in email they certainly most often don't use encryption.
As for how stupid that is? I'd like to point out that we all know from personal experiences that most companies send confirmation emails often with personal details as if email is a secure medium too.
People are just by-and-large stupid, you and I included I fear.

I don't appreciate how every country eavesdrops on all mail passing through it though, especially in europe your communication often travels through several countries who are pretty extreme (like the UK) and they all feel justified to read/store your personal communications.
It's said that as dumb as it seems, many people confess their criminal record in their immigration forms. So it just makes sense to weed out those stupid enough to not use encryption and they plan their next mass murder.
Its for the children...
Any volunteers who try to explain the word " encryption" to the uncivilized people in the Swedish forests ?

The whole things sounds like a fairy tale, to believe that terrorist wont use modern, cryptographic techniques is uttermost naive.

Heja Sverige ...

Alex