The Pirate Bay to Add SSL Encryption Starting this Week

[Jorge]

Comes in response to recent passage of a law allowing all e-mails and phone calls to be monitored in the name of national security.
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent tracker sites, is once again at the forefront of privacy rights in Sweden with news that it plans to add SSL encryption to the site in response to recent legislation allowing the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) to begin monitoring all outgoing and incoming communications that cross Sweden's borders.
Now the new spying powers won't mean that much for people outside Sweden because The Pirate Bay's servers have long been scattered throughout the world to prevent another shutdown of the site by Swedish authorities.
But, many are rightly upset over the enhanced powers given to the FRA, which is currently only allowed to monitor military radio communications, since it will simply mean that a supercomputer searches for easily circumventable key words in traffic to then lock onto. The 9/11 terrorists for example, referred to their attack as a "wedding," a key word absent from the search system.
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[Mels_Smileys45]

Comes in response to recent passage of a law allowing all e-mails and phone calls to be monitored in the name of national security.



Yeah, good luck with that. Its a needle in a haystack. Who would want to be in charge of that project? I guess people who like to decide what people to monitor. No way to monitor it all so 'people of interest' must be identified. Sounds like a good way for different agencies and political parties to spy on one another to me.

[DrewWilson]

As you may be aware, the more content Google has, the more effective it is in finding what you are looking for. The same goes for warrantless wiretapping. While it may seem like the more data you have, the more of a burden it is, in reality, the more data you have, the better your tapping program gets. At least, this was my understanding of it.

[killahill]

I dont know what SSL encryption means but I hope it protects the users.