howard mcsweeney1 wrote: I suggest that our security services have crossed the legality line many times in order to foil potential outrages, this merely rubber stamps things for them.
What has actually happened is that that GCHQ, SIS,Security Service etc have been working in a fast evolving technology and just as 'opening our post' was allowed with certain checks and balances (it's amazing what one could do with a high speed drill and a split knitting needle before the technology improved and one could read through envelopes) the changes will make sure that modern forms of interception of communication are actually not only [U]not[/U] illegal but actually part of the legislation so could not be challenged through the courts.
As for the security of Apple phones don't forget whilst asymmetric key cryptography (e.g. RSA encryption /Diffie-Hellman key exchange) were supposedly invented in the early 1970s some forty years later it now appears that GCHQ were doing this in the 1960s! (I see they are still advertising for mathematicians today!) so when the claim is that the Apple iPhone is 'unbreakable' one might think it exactly the thing they would say , especially if they had already 'broken' it?
