Interesting Links for 31-10-2011

[andrewducker]

• Now _this_ is welfare fraud. 97% of Long Island Railroad workers retire on disability...
  
  (tags: welfare usa disability fraud )
• Met Police spends millions of pounds on secret aircraft to eavesdrop on mobile calls
  
  (tags: police london uk spying )
• Prince Charles has the power to veto some government legislation
  
  (tags: uk royalty politics law wtf )
• two thirds of UK homes to have fibre broadband by 2014 (mostly FTTC I suspect)
  
  (tags: fibreoptics internet broadband bt )

Comments

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Good heavens. Does this mean that The Plod have been able to crack A5/1 at will?

[andrewducker]

Interesting question:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/metropolitan-police-mobile-phone-surveillance

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I read that as 'Plod have bought a bogus base-station/EMX and probably don't have to decrypt the over-the-air traffic any more.'

Fucksake.