On: From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities

[tajen]

> the data must be destroyed

A single 1To hdd may contain 10Ko of information on every UK citizen. So while we clean, we'd better check every single pocket of every employee...

[baconner → tajen]

Indeed. Complete destruction of the data is probably impossible. This is exactly why this kind of vacuum everything collection is so dangerous. There's no data access protection in the world bullet proof enough to justify the risk of storing it.

[yuhong → baconner]

Thinking about it, at least with key escrow the private keys can be stored in HSMs.

[dreamfactory2 → baconner]

It needs to be viewed as akin to nuclear waste