Confidential bank details scavenged from computers dumped in British rubbish tips and recycling points are being traded for cash in Africa, according to a new investigation.

Personal data, including passwords, sort codes, account numbers and even family names and birth dates, are being offered for sale by fraudsters in Nigeria for less than £20.

The information is being taken from the hard disks of PC’s abandoned at waste tips and local authority recycling points which are then shipped to Africa for repair.

Although the owners believe that they have deleted any confidential information before throwing away the computers, the data can usually be retrieved easily and quickly.

Telegraph

Banks will be among the many institutions that will be able to access NIR related information, qed we shall see this story repeated with far more sensitive & personal information if the NIR database goes ahead and people register on it. Of course the increased usage of computer records in the NHS and other State agencies means a potential agglomeration of personal data from recycled/waste PCs.

Transparent bags

The Department for Transport set out the details of the security measures at UK airports.

Passengers are not allowed to take any hand luggage on to any flights in the UK, the department said.

Only the barest essentials – including passports and wallets – will be allowed to be carried on board in transparent plastic bags.

“We hope that these measures, which are being kept under review by the government, will need to be in place for a limited period only,” the statement said.

British Airways said that passengers who do not wish to fly on Thursday could rebook on flights leaving over the next two weeks.

At Stansted airport, more than 2,000 passengers, clutching their plastic bags, snaked around the terminal queuing to pass through customs. […]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778575.stm

These transparent bags for your ID, wallet and toothbrush are symbolic of what they are trying roll out in the entire society on a permanent basis. When they say, “We hope that these measures, which are being kept under review by the government, will need to be in place for a limited period only” this is the big lie. They want everyone at all times to have their entire lives in transparent plastic bags. They want your bank account transparent to them. They want your health records transparent to them. They want all of your purchases transparent to them. They want the precise details every journey you make to anywhere, no matter what the destination or distance, transparent to them.

In a perfect world, all the people in that airport would go home, leaving it empty and the flights empty and the hollidays cancelled. When this happens, people lose money. Business is damaged. THEN people listen. THEN policy changes. Britain can keep its disasterous ‘relationship’ with the usa because, so far, it is not losing any money out of it. As soon as that changes, then the story is very different. Sadly, we are not in that perfect world. We are in the world of sub humans like ‘Tony Shield from Chorley’, who intones in his brutish grunting animal voice:

“This disruption is one of the short term limits on freedom that are needed”

And that, my friends, is a BIG part of the problem. Subhuman scum who will drag us all to hell with them because they cannot string more than two consecutive thoughts together in a chain of logic. Literally, like sheep.
George Galloway talks about the vast sums of money being put down on gambling tables in London by Arabs in that MEMRI clip. They, of all people, are still coming here despite……but I digress.

I had a Skype call this morning to ask me how to take a laptop on a plane, “since you are not allowed to carry hand luggage anymore; 8 people tried to blow up planes last night”.

The reaction to this, the plstic bagging and the ban on luggage, is completely absurd. The fact is that if this plot is true, they ‘caught’ who was going to do it. There is no need to make a soap opera and spectacle out of it. Its like the insane bans on metal cutlery after the mythical ‘911’. Elal, the Israeli airline never did this of course, because they have a better grip on real security, and for all their legion of sins are not in the throws of hysterical security theatre like the keystone kops at M|5 are.

Note how the utterly stupid and useless M|5 ‘threat level’ was up and running just in time for this apalling charade, and how it has been seamlessy integrated into all the stories about this ‘event’.

Finally, note how this was ‘foiled’ on the tenth and not the eleventh. Amateurs!

If you read this blog you’re no doubt aware of the AOL search history debacle. Now that we learn at least one person has been identified as a result of their search history we can see the unfortunate consequences of accruing information about a person’s ‘habits’. Of course I refer to the audit trail the NIR and attendant databases will create (and this will happen despite government protestations to the contrary – police officers will be required to fill in a form every time they request to see an ID card and will this information will have to be stored for quality control and verification – companies will be able to buy NIR information and cross reference it with their own credit/loyalty card databases; most supermarkets/companies sell financial services these days and will request ‘identification’ before selling these products so don’t think ticking a little data protection box will help you much).

You know very well that NIR information will be extrapolated to form an ‘aura’, of course as we stand an individual’s argument holds sway until sufficient evidence can be brought to bear and tsuch an ‘aura’ could be refuted easily but the whole basis of the NIR twists this relationship so the individual has to bear the burden of providing the State with accurate information (i.e. the computer is right unless notified otherwise).

Whoever is put on the NIR will have ‘their’ data routinely accessed and this will eventually be accessed by corrupt individuals who will be able to use such information for blackmail, stalking and fraud amongst other crimes. Of course for AOL the writing has been on the wall for a while and certain people are saying “FFS it’s AOL what do people expect?” in a respect they are right and people should be using a different ISP, however with the NIR there is only one guarantee of not having your life ruined in a similar way and that is to not register.

Incidentally anyone who has had access to their bank account suspended for a couple of weeks for ‘security reasons’ will know how much of a PITA it is to carry out things with whatever small change you happen to have. If you are dependent on a form of identification that controls access to State services and becomes a requirement for a number of financial transactions and can be revoked at will (as NIR records will be) you will feel the pain 3bn-fold (as an example consider this story but with your medical history requiring a suspended NIR number).

And we didn’t even mention Echelon!

Brown to let shops share ID card data

Opponents warn that linking police databases with the private sector to beat crime will lead to a ‘surveillance state’ and a big assault on privacy

Gaby Hinsliff, political editor Sunday August 6, 2006 The Observer

Gordon Brown is planning a massive expansion of the ID cards project that would widen surveillance of everyday life by allowing high-street businesses to share confidential information with police databases. Far from intending to dump ID cards once he is in Downing Street, Brown is quietly studying how biometric technology – identifying people by unique markers such as fingerprints and iris patterns – could be expanded over the next 20 years to fight crime.

Police could be alerted instantly when a wanted person used a cash machine or supermarket loyalty card. Cars could be fingerprint-activated, making driving bans much harder to disobey […]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1838363,00.html

And so.

Remember how filthy animal Andy Burnham said that Henry Porter’s famous article, “…swallows the contents of a ridiculous, anonymous email and unquestioningly regurgitates it.”?

It seems that the ‘Frances Stonor Saunders’ email was not only accurate, but it could have gone much further in describing the system of total control that would be possible in a state where these real-time ID cards are rolled out.

Andy Burnham is a liar. He said the contents of that email were ‘ridiculous’ when they were nothing of the sort. Gordon Brown is clearly a man who cannot be allowed into office, since he wants to not only roll out the ID card, but apply ‘Super Nazi’ capabilities to the system. What an amazing beast he is; he has just produced a second child, and yet, wants to sell that very child into a slave society that he wants to have in place by the time it reaces the age of 20. Any man who would sell his child into slavery is a monster. If he can do this to his own children, imagine what he would be willing to do to the children of strangers.

The plan would make the ID cards scheme cheaper, since companies would pay for access to the national identity register – a government database of biometric information being compiled for the ID cards programme. […]

Brown has set up a taskforce, under former HBOS bank chief executive Sir James Crosby […]

Brown believes that, if myriad private databases develop, there is a risk that information will leak or be stolen. The Crosby review is looking at safeguards […]

Brown is an ass. It is clear that he understands nothing when it comes to this subject, and has based his position on the weasel words of vendors and their proxies. We have already discussed at length the insult of being made to pay for the privelege of being turned into a slave, you really should read through the Blarchive entries on ID cards if you are new to BLOGDIAL.

‘There is going to be a key issue over the next 10 to 15 years about identity management right across the public and private sectors,’ said the source close to Brown, adding that immigration control would be only part of it. ‘It’s about people coming to accept that this is not only a necessary but desirable part of modern society over the next 10 years. What [the Tories] are objecting to in the political sphere is going to be absolutely commonplace in the private sphere and saying “it’s not the British way” is just not going to work.’

No there is NOT going to be a ‘key issue’; identity management (doublespeak for ‘trust’) between private entities and individuals is a PRIVATE MATTER, and the market will find its own solutions. Government has no part to play in these private arrangements. Immigration control, DHSS, DVLA etc is another matter entirely, since those are matters between government and individuals, but even then, that relationship is not a license for government to roll out any scheme it likes just because it is given this responsibility. They cannot, for example, comple every visitor to Britain to take a chip implant, or a tatoo or some other invasive dehumanizing control measure. People have inalienable rights no matter what the problem being faced by society, and this is the principle that is being broken by the ID cards proposals and the bogus arguements for their introduciton.

This proposal is not a necessary or desireable part of ANY society, and as we have seen, the ill effects are devastating not only to the economy, but to the spirit of any country where these measures are introduced. Just ask the people who used to live in East Germany what it was like to be under constant surveillance. They hated it, it touched every part of their lives, and supressed every word that came out of their mouths. Imagine that scenario multiplied by orders of magnitude. Not only will every word you say or type be used against you, but every purchase, every journey, every association (both intentional and unintentional) will be up for inspection. There cannot be a single person who thinks that this is a good idea, or that this is a British idea. The only people who are for this are those who imagine that they and their relatives will somehow, by some ‘tech-magic’ that they cannot understand be immune to surveillance, otherwise, they would apply this imagined scenario to themselvs and thier children and say, “absolutely not”.

If the private people of this country decide to accept fingerprint readers at their banks, then that is a matter for them and their banks. The banks will provide insurance against datatheft. They will be responsible to their clients. If only one person suffers at the hands of a bank with a biometric ID verification system and this is publicised, it would ba disaster for the bank. This is why they, if they were to do it at all, would be much more careful than the responsibility-free government who does not even say sorry for its errors as we have seen again and again.

It is not only the Tories that are objecting to this proposal; everyone who understands what it means is against it, and they know it. They are desperately trying to figure out a way to salvage the contracts for the companies that have lined up with shears to fleece the british public. It is a shameful an despicable action.

The only way to stop this is to not line up to be processed. Without biometric data in the system, there are no applications that can be devised after the fact; no feature creep, no unforseen circumstances, no data theft…nothing.

Do not register for the NIR. Period. There is no benefit to you, and a great amount of danger to you and subsequent generations if you do enter it.

Guardian reports:

Opposition MPs have condemned a serious computer system failure that affected 80 NHS hospital trusts.

Some health staff in the North West and West Midlands were left unable to check appointments and access patient administration details on-screen.

NHS Connecting for Health, which runs the Government’s controversial IT programme, said there had been “serious interruption” to computer systems since Sunday morning. A spokesman stressed that the problem – caused by equipment failure – had not put patients at risk and no data had been lost.

He said: “The issues are administrative, such as dealing with admissions, patient tracking, the transfer of in-patient waiting lists and out-patient appointments. It is not about clinical information.”

But Liberal Democrat health spokesman Steve Webb said: “It is very alarming that trusts are reporting practical problems with a multi-billion-pound IT system.

“The NHS cannot rely on a computer system that is only right most of the time. If medical information is not available or supplied in error, then the effect on patients can be fatal. Serious questions must be asked about whether the proper safeguards were put in place before this system went online.”

[…]

Now apply this to when the NIR system is interrupted – 80 NHS trusts becomes alll health trusts (because the Government will eventually require NIR checks for NHS care in order to leverage underwhelming NIR registration), add in policing, DVLA, TV licensing, income support, financial services, buying alcohol or medicines and you see that when the NIR system goes down the entire portion of the country that has surrendered its freedoms to the State will grind to a halt.

And the NIR system will go down. Sooner rather than later – and more than once.

A lurker writes:

Thanks for the Links.

I have started to look at Jutra on a semi regular basis after it was mentioned on Irdial. Damn good read. I noticed another pro-ID card propaganda on the BBQ that is like the parasite riding on the back of a propagated fear, striking at the hearts of all parents and aiming to instill the placid obeying sheep goodhearted honest citizen mentality in to their children:

Child online safety card unveiled

The ID scheme aims to combat online grooming

A virtual ID card designed to improve children’s net safety has been launched in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. The NetIDMe card can be swapped by children online when using chatrooms, instant messaging and social networks.

Parents and children can apply for the card using credit card details and a form countersigned by a professional who knows the child concerned.

It is hoped that the card will make it harder for adults to pose as children when online.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) has said one in 12 children met up with someone encountered first online.

Online friends

The ID scheme was set up by UK businessman Alex Hewitt after he discovered that his daughter could only verify the age and identity of a third of her 150 online friends.

We would advise all parents and young people to remain vigilant to potential dangers Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Porter

He said: “People want to feel safe online and know the people they are talking to are who they say they are.”

The company said it would also use software techniques “similar to those used by the passport agency” to authenticate applications for the ID card.

The system can only work if two children messaging each other online have both signed up to the scheme.

Children swap their assigned NetID nicknames and take turns to log onto the service’s website.

The IDs are confirmed only if both parties have entered their e-mail address and passwords into the service. The card costs £10 a year and Mr Hewitt said he hoped it would “substantially reduce” the risk of young children being targeted by adults.

Jim Gamble, chief executive of the Ceop Centre, said: “Any measure that can help identify the real age of someone online is one more step to deterring people from assuming different online identities to exploit, groom and abuse children over the internet.”

Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Porter, head of interventions, of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, said technology could not guarantee complete protection.

He said: “We would advise all parents and young people to remain vigilant to potential dangers and ensure no personally identifiable information is shared with online strangers.” […]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5238992.stm

BBQ Scum simply cant resiste the urge to streetwalk and prostitute themselvs. We all know that using prostitutes is addictive, but addiction to BEING a prostitute?!

Now I’ve heard everything.

Note how this revolting, immoral, barely legal piece of bullshit is UNATTRIBUTED so that no one can be taken to task for bribery. Very nice you vermin!

Note how once again, there is no link to N02ID for ‘balance’ but there IS a link to the company that is providing this ‘service’. That is pure ‘pay for play’, and bias.

From Statewatch

A report from the EU Council Presidency at the end of June (EU doc no: 9403/1/06) proposes that for EU passports:

1. The “scanning of the facial image” should be:

“0 to 12 years of age.. storage in the chip [to be] on the basis of national legislation [and] from 12 years of age: Compulsory“. (emphasis in original).

[…]

2. The taking of finger-prints is a wholly different issue. Here the EU Council Presidency proposes that:

“Scanning of fingerprints up to 12 years of age.. is permissible if provided for by national legislation”

“From 12 years of age: compulsory” (emphasis in original)

And if any member states wants to set a lower limit, eg: 10, 8, 6 or 4 years, or 1 day, old they can do so and from 12 years old the compulsory taking of fingerprints from children.

The EU has absolutely no business in demanding anyones information be databased never mind children. At the very very most it should ensure a common format for any information that individual nations see fit to register. The EU is not a state and thanks to the rejection of the constitution it is still quite literally a non-entity in legal terms.

This was also reported in the Observer which has a typical half hearted quote from Liberty’s ex- Home Office employee, Shami Chakrabarti:

‘Secure passports make a lot more sense than ID cards,’ said Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty. ‘But only as long as the information that is kept is no more than necessary and is not shared with other countries.’

NO. A secure passport system can be made operable without any centralised database whatsoever, no information about free individuals need be shared with anybody, even within ‘their own country’. For a secure system you need nothing more complicated than a passport containing a digital photograph encrypted with public/private key encryption so that the immigration control officer can verify you are the legitimate holder of your passport. Everything else is a waste of money, an imposition upon anonymity and an invitation to theft of personal information and individual rights.

Anarchist Communist Editions (ACE) Pamphlet No. 4

Anarchist Communist Federation

(now Anarchist Federation www.afed.org.uk)

First published in March 1990 under the Tories

(following ‘The Poll Tax and How to Fight It’ October 1988)

Now published online March 2006 and dedicated to New Labour and the Left

“Our past experience should teach us to expect nothing else of them.”

‘As a socialist, I have no time for tax-dodgers’
Eric Milligan, head of Lothian region Labour council’s Finance Department (April 1989)

‘Such is the scale of the non-payment movement in our region that we may have to write-off large sums of outsanding poll tax’
Eric Milligan (December 1989)

CONTENTS

• Beating the Poll Tax
• How not to fight
• What lies behind the Poll Tax
• The ‘Left’ and the Poll Tax
• Appendix: What is the Poll Tax?

Burning poll tax registration forms in London

http://www.libcom.org/hosted/af/ace/polltax.html

The Register reports that the cost of passports will increase considerably yet again – this october – to £66(6) making it look increasingly likely that a stand alone pasport will be near the £93 mark by the ID card system is dumped upon the nation i.e. the government will crow that the ID card is in effect gratis. So where will the money go? Either to pump-prime the NIR system or for the closing down of UK borders that Reid seems hell bent on. You need a lot of money for watch towers and barbed wire around a whole island.

Either way it makes even more sense to renew your passport before NIR information auditing/stockpiling is a matter of course at the IPS.

I’ve just noticed the price rise is covered in the guardian too and they include a statement from NO2ID etc, hats off and may it continue.

Incidentally I have good word that travelling within the EU only UK immigration officials can actually be bothered to use machine readers, it would be nice to verify this.

The Sunday Times July 23, 2006

Leak reveals ID card ‘risks’ David Leppard

FRESH evidence that Tony Blairs flagship identity cards scheme is in crisis is disclosed in a confidential Home Office report which has been leaked to The Sunday Times. The 32-page restricted document says that the security system protecting the card and the national database could be infiltrated by criminal gangs involved in identity theft and highlights shrinking public support for the scheme. It also says British firms have no current manufacturing capacity to produce the card.

The report, entitled Market Soundings, flatly contradicts recent public reassurances to MPs by Joan Ryan, the minister responsible for ID cards, that the scheme is not facing any problems […]

It cites one manufacturer saying: “In New Zealand the lifetime of the card and chip was reduced from 10 to five years, since holding information for 10 years on a card could be dangerous as criminal activities may be able to defeat chip security within these time scales.”

Ryan’s claim to MPs that the document revealed “widespread public support for the scheme” is also contradicted. Summarising the “main risks” given by the 15 surveyed firms as to why they might not bid to develop the cards and national identity database, the report says: “Recent indications show that the British public’s appetite for the ID card is declining. Association with the resulting programme may compromise a company’s public image.”

Clegg said: “This suggests that government ministers are increasingly living in a parallel universe on ID cards. They claim there’s public support when we know it’s dwindling.

“They claim it’s insulated from fraud when its own analysis suggests it’s much more susceptible to access by criminals. Ministers are displaying King Canute-like powers of self- delusion.” […]

One of the most damning remarks in the new report is the disclosure by some manufacturers that they are in no position to make ID cards. They also said it might not be possible to produce enough iris cameras that will match the user’s “eyeprint” to their digital record on the national database.

The companies asked by the Home Office to give their confidential views on the project included BT, IBM, Motorola, Royal Mail and Siemens. They were also asked if they intended to bid for contracts to develop the system. […]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2281600,00.html

Some people somewhere have understood what the ID card scheme really means, and together, they are working from the inside to bring it down.

Firstly they are writing these damning documents, and then they are leaking them.

Hear the lion roar!

HEAR the companies shy away as they understand that THEY will also bear the brunt of the swelling HATE that will swirl around the ID Card / NIR.

This bad business is dying…now all we have to do is twist the serrated knife so that it ‘bleeds out’ swiftly.

The comments on this story say it all:

I’ve voted Labour all my life but this is really the end. Their intrusion into our liberty is frightening and they have ground away the last of my support.

– Niki, Reading, UK

So Bliar won’t even tell us if Leo has had the MMR jab, but all our kids details will be on a register for Lord know’s who to access. Where are the Civil Liberties groups when you need them?

– Sarah, France

When Germany tatooed the Jews there was a human outcry, now our govenment want to bar code it’s citizens. We’ll be known as ‘Barcode Britain’. It’s a good job this didn’t happen when I was a child, I’d have been put into care years ago!

– Alison Johnson, Lanark.UK

Yet again the state is grabbing total control of peoples lives. The outrage however is the lack of opposition by the Conservative and Lib Dem parties to stop this happening. If they truly believed in liberty and freedom they would be shouting from the rooftops, holding the government to account.

– John Galloway, Stanton Upon Hine Heath, Shropshire

Let’s hope that the opposition parties can put a stop to this Dictatorship as soon as possible.

– Fred, Northants

What is this Country coming to? The whole of Britain should take a stand and do something about this!

– Mel, Oxford, UK

No surprises, coming from the same control-freak government that seeks to force every law-abiding citizen to be fingerprinted like common criminals and inform the police when moving house, like a registered sex offender!

– Oliver Coombes, London, England

Completely ridiculous. This is undesirable, unworkable and unethical!

– Frances, Redhill, Surrey

My question to the people of Britain is are you going to let the government and its officials get away with this? Is it not time adults took back control of their families from the state?

– Mabon Dane, Haverhill, UK

What has happened to the spirit of Great Britain? From my side of the Atlantic it seems the British people are oblivious about losing their freedoms. It must be that the majority of the citizens are comfortable giving up their responsibilities to Big Brother. Little by little you are losing your individuality, effectively making the State your dad, mum, boss, etc. I am not anti government, I am for good government, and good government is limited government. I guess there is a childlike comfort to have someone or something looking out for you. But it comes with a big price to pay…your freedom. Maybe I’m totally wrong here, and if that is the case will someone please enlighten me as to what I’m missing.

– George Ruggiero, Whitney Point, New York USA

I can’t believe the over bearing restrictions of personal freedom I see coming out of England. Is there something in the water? What other excuse for the behavior of supposedly intelligent politicians? Either the birth rate will drop even further or couples will start leaving the country.
Next move? Inspectors at the borders to prevent pregnant women from emigrating.

– Joyce B. Goetz, Westlake Village, CA USA

This is outragious! British citizens should take a cue from France for once and riot in the streets.
Don’t depend on civil liberty groups to take the government to task as they are even more left than Labour. No wonder the West is slowly sinking and losing all it’s greatness it once had.
China Inc. will be smiling in the wings.

– John Main, Auckland, New Zealand

Children need one register to keep them safe – the Child Protection Register. It works very well. Tragically, the government is to abolish this by 2008. This register focuses professional attention on the few children identified as at high risk of child abuse – there is very good reason to be monitoring them and their families to keep the children safe from harm. Most children are well cared for and to electronically monitor their progress is an affront to good parents and carers and a terrible invasion of human rights. Please campaign to save the Child Protection Register. Vulnerable children depend on you to contact your MP.

– Liz, london UK

Papers please. What are we coming to? This is only the beginning of complete monitoring of all citizens. Trouble is, as long as we only complain about this in bars and take no action, we are eventually going to have to accept complete state control. Whatever happened to “never again”?

– John, Darwen, England

Britain seems about time for a revolution. They’re just doing this so that in 30 years, they can start tracking these babies as adults as they build their careers… the entire country is becoming a sick social experiment where the government is a scientist, tracking, analyzing and trying to play god with the human race.

– Matt, Carroll NH, USA

How can this even be done? To monitor whether a child is eating 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day? How is that even possible?
I don’t see how this could be implemented in any practical way, just more bureaucracy and more paperwork and more confusion. Also more jobs created by the government. It’s scary to think the govt. will give so many people power over the lives of families. This isn’t going to help children at risk, it’s going to prepare an entire generation to obey orders and to be, essentially, helpless in the long run.

– Desha Devor, Washington, DC, USA

What happens if you refuse to give details?

– John De St Croix, London England

[…]

The Daily Mail

The hate is swelling in them now.

Look at all of these comments!

It looks like a rough ride for Bliar and the Neu Labour fascist enterprise. The best comment, the most satisfying, exiting and hope inducing one is:

“What happens if you refuse to give details?”

FINALLY someone somewhere (and this person CANNOT be the only one) is waking up, and saying, “fuck that for a scream, I’m just not going to do it”. Awesome.

I would suggest however, that the way forward is not to ‘refuse to give details’ but to simply ignore any and all requests for information. When you refuse, you actually provide feedback to the system, which is then recorded by and which engrosses the very system you are trying to strarve of information.

Imagine this; they send out 16 million letters to parents up and down the country, and not one of them replies. What are they going to do?

There is NOTHING that they can do. If no one reples, and no one responds, they are dead in the water. They might of course, try and cobble this information from schools or other sources, but that may be illegal, and fundamentally they need everyone’s cooperation. If you don’t give it, they die.

Police call for tracker chips in paedophiles
David Leppard

BRITAIN’S most senior policeman is proposing that electronic chips should be surgically implanted into convicted paedophiles and dangerous sex offenders so they can be more easily tracked.

Ken Jones, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said the implants would be tracked by satellite, enabling authorities to set up “zones” from which sex offenders would be barred. These could include schools, playgrounds and former victims’ homes. Any attempt by the offender to enter the zones would trigger alarms in a monitoring centre, enabling police to act.

Jones, whose association represents all 43 chief constables in England and Wales, said the scheme would help to reassure the public at a time of mounting concern about the government’s handling of sex offenders.

“If we are prepared to track cars, why don’t we track people? You could put surgical chips into those of the most dangerous sex offenders who are are willing to be controlled,” he said.

His comments follow the announcement last month by John Reid, the home secretary, of a review of the way paedophiles and other sex offenders are treated on their release. […]

He said he was aware that civil liberties groups would object to the idea of a “Big Brother” monitoring system but emphasised that the chips would be implanted only with the agreement of sex offenders and would be targeted at those guilty of the most serious crimes.

“You could have a pilot scheme for the people who represent the highest risk and who would voluntarily want to go into this. You’d be surprised how many would be willing to submit to that kind of control,” he said. […]

The chips — inserted beneath the skin under local anaesthetic — could also monitor the heart rate and blood pressure of the offender, alerting authorities to the possible imminence of an attack.

Dr William Harwin, of the cybernetics department at Reading University, said such tags were now widely available: “Similar tracking chips are already extensively used on pets and livestock.”

Supporters believe implanted chips would be more effective than electronic tags on ankles or wrists because they cannot easily be removed.

Figures released by the Home Office last month showed that since 2001 more than 3,300 sex offenders had been punished for absconding or failing to tell police where they were living. […]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2272338.html

1/ We are not ‘prepared to track cars’.
2/ People are not cars.

Police DNA database ‘is spiralling out of control’

Secret emails show private firms store genetic data from innocent victims

Antony Barnett, investigations editor Sunday July 16, 2006 The Observer

The security of the police National DNA Database is in question following the disclosure of confidential emails which reveal that a private firm has secretly been keeping the genetic samples and personal details of hundreds of thousands of arrested people. Police forces use the company LGC to analyse DNA samples taken from people they arrest. LGC then supplies the information to the National DNA Database. Yet rather than destroy this afterwards, the firm has kept copies, together with highly personal demographic details of the individuals including their names, ages, skin colour and addresses.

In a separate twist, evidence has emerged that the Home Office has given permission for a controversial genetic study to be undertaken using the DNA samples on the police database to see if it is possible to predict a suspect’s ethnic background or skin colour from them. Permission has been given for the DNA being collected on the police database to be used in 20 research studies […]

The Home Office emailed LGC with its concerns: ‘From a [DNA Database] custodian and Data Protection Act perspective, it is important that there are no demographics linked to these retained profiles. Otherwise, suppliers would be building up subsets of the National DNA Database.’ The company admits that is has been doing this. It states: ‘All the information is on [our system]. We do in effect have a mini-database.’ One of LGC’s directors is Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, and it has several contracts with companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech and chemicals industry. Although there is no evidence that the firm has used the DNA records for other commercial purposes, opposition MPs are calling for the Home Office to launch an investigation. Lynne Featherstone, the home affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, said: ‘This might be more cock-up than conspiracy, but the Home Office must investigate whether DNA taken from thousands of innocent people has not been abused.’ […]
The genetic research is being carried out by Jon Wetton of the Forensic Science Service. An FSS spokesperson said the aim of the research was to reduce the time taken to identify a suspect .’ […]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1821749,00.html

My emphasis.

At last, we see the results of the DNA database, and government databases in general as they reveal their true natures; Racist tools of absolute control.

Not only has this data been illegally and imorally retained by the contractor that was doing the work, but a secret, Nazi style race experiment was ORDERED by the Fascist Bliar government.

At any other time between the end of world war two and the end of the twentieth century, any politician involved in such a disgusting, immoral and wrong project would instantly resign and then be aressted, but today, they simply get away with it.

All you sheeple, you morons, you Facist Facilitators, you Upstream Warmongers™ THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.

You can see from the link to Jon Wetton’s name above that he is publishing his research:

Inferring the population of origin of DNA evidence within the UK by allele-specific hybridization of Y-SNPs.

Wetton JH, Tsang KW, Khan H.

The Forensic Science Service, R&D, Trident Court 2960, Solihull Parkway, Birmingham Business Park, Solihull B37 7YN, UK. jon.wetton@fss.pnn.police.uk

Marked differences in Y-SNP allele frequencies between continental populations can be used to predict the biogeographic origin of a man’s ancestral paternal lineage. Using 627 samples collected from individuals within the UK with pale-skinned Caucasian, dark-skinned Caucasian, African/Caribbean, South Asian, East Asian or Middle Eastern appearance we demonstrate that an individual’s Y-SNP haplogroup is also strongly correlated with their physical appearance. Furthermore, experimental evaluation of the Marligen Signet Y-SNP kit in conjunction with the Luminex 100 detection instrument indicates that reliable and reproducible haplogrouping results can be obtained from 1 ng or more of target template derived from a variety of forensic evidence types including, blood, saliva and post-coital vaginal swabs. The test proved highly male-specific with reliable results being generated in the presence of a 1000-fold excess of female DNA, and no anomalous results were observed during degradation studies despite a gradual loss of typable loci. Hence, Y-SNP haplogrouping has considerable potential forensic utility in predicting likely ethnic appearance.

Now, if this research has come from the immorally stolen DNA of the British public, then anyone who works with this data has comitted a crime. Scientists are morally obligated not to use the results of work done on people without their consent. If PubMed have published this immoral work, then they are culpable. Anyone who derives anything from this work is also culpable.

This article is being sold for Thirty Dollars. Anyone who is selling this document, if it is tainted, is culpable.

As for Lord Stevens, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the ex Metropolitan Police Commissioner “…the most successful Commissioner in modern times” is the head of the private company that won the contract to fleece the British people of their DNA for their racist, immoral, unpardonable, unspeakable, hideous, Mengeloid madness. That is the least surprising aspect of the whole sordid affiar.

According to this article it costs between $100-150 to get a DNA profile done. That means that with three MILLION profiles on file, they have charged at least THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS for this ‘service’, and now that ANY OFFENCE is arrestable, it means that MILLIONS MORE people will be DNA swabbed at this same price. That my friends, is what we call a licence to print money.

It’s all bad business. Note finally that the enemies of the people the members of parliament call only for another toothless investigation and not the wholesale destruction of the databases.
DIE DIE DIE you animals!

Meth crackdowns employ IDs, signatures

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — Showing ID isn’t just for smokes and beer anymore.

Starting Sunday, cold and allergy sufferers in Illinois will need identification and they must be willing to sign a log before they can buy a popular decongestant that’s also used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine.

State police have seen a huge jump in the number of meth lab busts in recent years — from just 24 in 1997 to nearly 1,000 each of the past three years — and the number of Illinois cases has risen to third in the nation.

The state tried pulling pseudoephedrine-based medications off open shelves and putting them behind the counter last year, but Illinois remained a magnet for meth makers because other state’s had even stiffer requirements, Attorney General Lisa Madigan said.

Oregon, meanwhile, started a registry for cold remedies containing pseudoephedrine and saw its methamphetamine lab discoveries dropped by more than half last year.

“Our hopes are that we will see similar numbers,” Madigan said.

She and others hope that by further limiting access to the drug found in non-prescription medications such as Sudafed, Tylenol Cold and Claritin D, will curb the growing problem.

Just the requirement that buyers show ID may deter many meth users, who are often already paranoid because of the effects of the drug, said Master Sgt. Bruce Liebe, who heads the state police meth response team.

The newly required logs could also become a powerful investigative tool for law enforcement, said McLean County Sheriff Dave Owens. The logs will be confidential in most respects, but available to police for drug investigations.

Some pharmacists aren’t as optimistic. They say the new law will give them headaches by forcing them to check IDs, log every purchaser by name and keep track of medication so buyers don’t exceed 7.5 grams of pseudoephedrine a month, which authorities say is enough for daily recommended dosages of the decongestant. If they don’t follow it, they could face $500 fines and possible criminal charges.

Bill Martin, who owns an independent pharmacy in Bloomington, decided to simply stop selling the cold and allergy remedies rather than deal with it.

“We just didn’t want to hassle with the paperwork. We sell so little of it that we just pulled it off the shelves,” Martin said.

Shoppers, however, say they’re willing to wait if the new law reverses the rise of the highly addictive, homemade drug.

“You can’t be in that big of a hurry if it helps the kids — not just the kids, everyone,” said Nancy Harvey, 54, of Normal.

As of October, 37 states had some sort of restriction on the sales of pseudoephedrine, from requiring a prescription to simply limiting the number of packages purchased at one time, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Since then, Michigan has also restricted sales.

Nationally, lawmakers wrote federal restrictions into legislation to extend the Patriot Act, but those restrictions weren’t included in the temporary renewal that was enacted, and its fate in Congress this year is uncertain.

Illinois officials acknowledge their new law isn’t perfect.

For now, purchases will only be logged at individual stores, meaning meth producers can still stockpile medications by hitting several pharmacies. Madigan hopes to develop a statewide database. Walgreens, based in Illinois, is considering its own database for its nearly 500 stores statewide, as well, spokesman Michael Polzin said.

Lynn Webber, who owns an independent pharmacy in Bloomington, said the state might be overreacting at the expense of customers and pharmacists.

“We’re jousting at windmills,” Webber said. “It’s a terrible addiction, but it’s such a small percentage of the drug users.” […]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-01-14-meth-crackdown_x.htm

The problems with this are many but the main one is that, it will not stop the purchase of ‘cough syrup’ by the microsopically small, statictically insignifigant, puny group of people who want to use it to make another product, and it will allow access into the lives of ordinary, law abiding people. It will allow companies to create a database of everyone who has bought this product. It will allow all the bad things we constantly talk about when we discuss this.

It is the wrong headed idea of having to show ID to do something that has reared its ugly head again, and of course, when everyone in that sleepy country is used to showing ID for anything and everything, they will switch to ‘only REALID is real ID’ and then the entire population will be caught in the snare.

From the guardian pipes:

NHS database ‘will damage privacy’

Doctors have criticised the massive new health service IT system, claiming the project will harm patient confidentiality.

They said there were serious issues of security once 50 million patient records are stored on one database.

The barbed comments from doctors are the latest set back for the £12.4 billion IT scheme, which has been shrouded in controversy.

Writing in the British Medical Journal, several frontline medics questioned the wisdom of putting the medical records of the UK population on to one central computer.

Consultant Michael Foley said suggested that the huge sums of money invested in the database would be better spent improving patient care.

Passwords to existing patient records were sometimes shared and computer screens left on in open view, he said.

“Insufficient attention is paid to confidentiality and security, even though staff can be disciplined for breaching rules on electronic data protection,” he said.

“When the medical history of the whole population becomes available on a central computer the potential for loss of confidentiality is obvious.”

Mr Foley, a consultant anaesthetist at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, said: “Workers in hospitals or general practice surgeries might seek inappropriate access to medical records because of curiosity or malice, commercial gain, or simple error.

“If screens are left on in open areas or passwords compromised, tracing of access for disciplinary purposes would be difficult. If challenged after a breach of security one could argue that data were requested accidentally. I occasionally enter a wrong number into the radiology viewing system and see unwanted images. Such errors are inevitable.”

The concerns will give succour to critics of the Government’s National Identity Register, which was recently lambasted in internal emails by senior Home Office officials. An Home Office insider who wished not to be named said “these are exactly the same concerns which we will be unable to address with the new Identity Card system, and unfortunately will make implementation of the system more difficult in the face of increased public concerns about the ability of Government databases to securely store private information about individuals”. A spokesman from No2ID added that “this is only the tip of the iceberg the NIR will not only store health records but provide a complete audit of an individual’s life, it is inconceivable that the Government still wishes to pursue this path in light of all the recent developments”.

Naturally the guardian just reprinted a Press Association article and I had to put the last paragraph in to show the sort of simple additions that need to be done to articles in order to inform people, rather than relate isolated facts

I imagine the printed version will include such detail!!!

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Part two (Salami fascism):

From the guardian’s film section;

Among those interviewed for Sabina Guzzanti’s “satirical documentary” Viva Zapatero! is Furio Colombo, a former editor of the Italian leftwing daily L’Unita. He recalls how his family kept bound editions of the newspaper from previous years. As a boy, he says, he used to leaf through the volumes from the years that saw the rise of fascism. “I remember I used to wonder why people didn’t see,” he tells Guzzanti, “because at first there were so many who later became anti-fascists, and even joined the Resistance, who took part or said weak-kneed things like ‘Despite everything, Italy’s still a democracy.'”

But, looking through the yellowing pages, he gradually realised how Mussolini had established his dictatorship almost by stealth. “The second volume was more fascist than the first, the third was more fascist than the second, and the 10th was infinitely more fascist than at the beginning, so that by the end of a year of bound volumes, there was fascism.”

Perhaps this is why, according to British Telecom, 48% of all landline users, including non-BT customers, are ex-directory. And the figure has been climbing steadily. Add to that Britain’s legion of mobile phone users, virtually all of whom are not listed on any directory, and you have a nation that wants to be left alone. […]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5168570.stm

Now. The obvious next question is this; do all these people who jump at the chance of being ex-directory also understand what it means to be forced to carry the new ID card and register for the evil NIR?

SURELY if they were iinformed of what it means, they would be against it en-masse.

The article also has this:

HOW TO VANISH
Be ex-directory
Opt out of edited electoral roll
Tick boxes to stop third parties getting info
Join Telephone Preference Service

How will you be able to ‘vanish’ if you are on the NIR? Did the idiot Finlo Rohrer even THINK about this as he was writing this piece? It beggars belief that with the recent leaked emails that the light bulb didnt go off in his head…. Heh…now its ME being dumb!

Clearly all the people who are ex-directory if given the choice would ‘opt out’of the NIR/ID shenanigans. This statistic is heartening. It means that people still value their privacy and are willing to protect it as long as it is easy for them to do so.

That means that we have to create a solution that makes it easy for people to opt out of the NIR should HMG try and roll it out. It also means that in the new system where we take control of our identity documents, we need not only to contact all of these people, but to make it easy for them to use it and thereby destroy the previous system of state controlled identity by default.

David Leppard

TONY BLAIR’S flagship identity cards scheme is set to fail and may not be introduced for a generation, according to leaked Whitehall e-mails from the senior officials responsible for the multi-billion-pound project.

The problems are so serious that ministers have been forced to draw up plans for a scaled-down “face-saving” version to meet their pledge of phasing in the cards from 2008.

However, civil servants say there is no evidence that even this compromise is “remotely feasible” and accuse ministers of “ignoring reality” by pressing ahead.

One official warns of a “botched operation” that could put back the introduction of ID cards for a generation. He added: “I conclude that we are setting ourselves up to fail.” Another admits he is planning Home Office strategy around the possibility that the scheme could be “canned completely”.

In one e-mail the prime minister is personally blamed for the fiasco with his proposal for a scaled-down or “early variant” version. “It was a Mr Blair apparently who wanted the ‘early variant’ card. Not my idea,” writes a top Home Office civil servant.

The e-mails expose another crisis for John Reid, the home secretary, who has already labelled his department as “not fit for purpose” following the recent foreign prisoners scandal.

The correspondence has been leaked by a senior official close to the Treasury. He acknowledges that the documents will infuriate ministers because they contradict the government’s public statements on ID cards.

Blair has repeatedly trumpeted the scheme as a centrepiece of the government’s efforts to combat terrorism, illegal immigration and crime. Ministers have rounded on critics who say the government has underestimated the cost and complexity of the technology.

Last year ministers rubbished claims by the London School of Economics that the scheme was too unwieldy and would cost as much as £19 billion, compared with the government’s estimate of £6 billion.

The government proposes that all Britain’s 50m adults will eventually carry the cards, which will include biometric data such as digitally encoded fingerprints or iris scans that could be checked against a huge database. The cards are to be introduced voluntarily from 2008 but, if re-elected, Labour proposes to make them compulsory for everyone over 16.

The e-mail correspondence last month was between Peter Smith, acting commercial director at the Identity and Passport Service, the Home Office agency set up to bring in the cards, and David Foord, the ID card project director at the Office of Government Commerce, which is responsible for vetting the project to ensure that the Treasury gets value for taxpayers’ money.

They reveal that the government is “rethinking” the entire scheme with an alternative “face-saving” compromise, which Smith blames on Blair. This “early variant” plan appears to involve collecting and storing biometric data on a temporary ID register but makes no mention of actually using it on cards.

However, officials doubt that this will work. Foord writes: “Just because ministers say do something does not mean we ignore reality — which is what seems to have happened on ID cards until [the contracts were due] to be issued and then reality could not be ignored any longer.”

He adds: “Even if everything went perfectly (which it will not) it is very debatable (given performance of government IT projects) whether whatever [the register] turns out to be (and that is a worry in itself) can be procured, delivered, tested and rolled out in just over two years and whether the resources exist within government and industry to run two overlapping procurements.

“What benchmark in the Home Office do we have that suggests that this is even remotely feasible? I conclude that we are setting ourselves up to fail.”

He reveals that the contracts for the ID card scheme are under threat because of “the amount of rethinking going on about identity management”. He also says they are “[un]affordable”; “lack clear benefits from which to demonstrate a return on investment”; and suffer from a “very serious shortage of appropriately qualified staff”.

Foord says: “I do not have a problem with ministers wanting a face-saving solution but we need to be clear with . . . senior officials, special advisers and ministers just what this implies.” He then warns of a “botched introduction” of the scheme, adding: “If it is subject to a media feeding frenzy, which it might well be close to a general election, [it] could put back the introduction of ID cards for a generation and won’t do much for IPS credibility nor for the government’s election chances.”

Acknowledging these concerns, Smith says his IPS agency is planning around the possibility that the entire protect will fail. In a June 8 e-mail he writes: “We are designing the strategy so that [other contracts such as a contact centre for passport queries] are all sensible and viable contracts in their own right EVEN IF the ID card gets canned completely.”

In public, ministers have so far given no hint of any private fears about the viability of the scheme. But senior officials admit privately that the Home Office has abandoned its timetable for introducing cards.

Foord writes: “This has all the inauspicious signs of a project continuing to be driven by an arbitrary end date rather than reality. The early variant idea introduces huge risk on many levels.”

The problems in designing a workable system have meant a delay until March 2007 in putting out contracts to tender to private companies to build and manage the scheme. They had been due this summer.

Another official involved in the project said: “Nobody expects this programme to work. It is basically on hold while ministers rethink their options. It’s impossible to imagine the full scheme being brought in before 2026.”

The disclosures will be seized on by critics who say it is too expensive, unworkable and a breach of privacy. The Tories plan to scrap the cards and use the money to build prisons.

Simon Davies, a member of the LSE team that said costs could rise to £19 billion, said the rethink was “a vindication of all the concerns we have expressed about the costs and viability” of the scheme.

Last night the Home Office said it remained committed to an ID card scheme but had always maintained its introduction would be an “incremental” process. The cards are expected to cost about £93, which each citizen must pay when getting a new passport from 2010. […]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2262437_2,00.html

My emphasis.

Note that there are no references to how the public will totally reject ID cards; their only concerns are their own complete incompetence, lact of trained staff and the unworkability of the project.

Note how they say that they will not be able to introduce the cards for a generation. This means that the steady Eloiification of the population will intersect with a point in the future where computers are absolutely ubiqutous and such a roll out will be not only possible, but easy. Computer literacy in that generation will be far more widespread, so there will be many people who are able to staff the project at all levels.

Now is the time for alternatives to document security to be pushed hard to the public; ones that do not rely on a central database, ones that are not contingent upon expensive and unreliable commercial and bespoke software from third parties. Hmmm.

In a perfect world, a pronouncement like this, one admitting the powerlessness of government would be the singnal to take down the surveillance network as it stands right now. All Congestion Charge cameras to be destroyed, all CCTV cameras pointing into public spaces knocked out. It is clear that these people can only do what they are doing because everyone complacently lets them. Any mass action is irresistable, wether it is the removal of all CCTV/CC cameras or the refusal to pay any tax, or register in an ID card scheme. It doesnt matter what you are talking about specifically, the numbers are the only thing that matters, and we have them and will always have them.

Sadly, there are still some people who do not understand this. I posted a package to someone the other day. The counter staffer asked me for the post code. I gave it to him. He then read out the street from his UNISYS terminal. He asked me for the street number. I gave it to him. He then read out the name of the business, and then printed out the postage sticker. “Thats cool” I said. He replied, “Yes, Big Brother is everywhere, you can’t escape it!”. Sensing an opportunity to spread the anti-ID message, I fired off, “This stuff is not the problem, ID cards are the REAL problem, and you must make sure that you don’t register for one. If everyone refuses, they can’t possibly bring them in.”. Then it started…

“Yeah, but they will bring them in anyway”
“No they won’t; it will be like the poll tax. Everyone refused to pay it and it died”
“Yeah, but they still brought it in”
“No, they did not, we pay rates today not a poll tax”
“But they still brought it in”
“The poll tax is completely different from rates; the poll tax was totally defeated. What you pay today is based on the value of your property and it has nothing to do with how many people live in your house. That is what the poll tax was. ID cards CAN be defeated, just like the poll tax was.”
“Yeah but it makes no difference to me because I’m still paying a fortune”
“If you dont want ID cards, you dont have to have them, thats the point”
“Yeah but they will still briing them in.”

Ooooo kkkkkkkkkk……..

And this, I fear, is the problem. This genial idiot is the sort of person who will be the interface between you and the NIR. They will accept anything that is put in front of them; they have no idea of literally any concept of morality or the reality of ‘the other’. They are the people who when told that pressing a button someone will recieve an electric shock, press the button without any hesitation. They are without imagination, human drones, Eloi, animals, sub human, and the worst thing about them is that they have the vote, which means that they have control by proxy over how the world evolves. This is unnaceptable to anyone with even half a brain cell.

This is undoubtedly what the NWO/PNAC brigades believe; you can cut with a knife the swelling contempt for these types they must feel when they meet the hoards of Eloi that infest the world. From their perspective these people don’t deserve rights, freedom or anything that the previous generations of real people were given, or took for themselvs. This is the licence they need to install dictatorship over the whole world; the ingnorant blathering of postmen who accept dictatorship and tyrrany as inevitable, and who will obey any order given to them without question.

Ask them to stay at work one second after 5:30 however, and you will have a revolt on your hands.