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Moon Cat wrote:
He was saying that the sheer amount of information to sort through if this is implemented is so vast that you're almost guaranteed to miss the very things you're looking for in the first place.
Well, um, meh, its a good point. The thing is not about missing things, which any kind of filtering (and there would have to be filtering) would do, but about having the legal freedom to do it at all. This whole process is just a content aggregation activity, an information land grab informed solely by the paranoia of politicians. This content will probably be used to direct and inform policy, in much the same way that Google targets adverts based on where you go online.
Thing is the most effective way to snoop would be to just monitor packets as they fly around the net, looking for specific content types and behaviours, and then duplicating the packets off somewhere for analysis later. This is a known and documented strategy of the NSA in America where an ex-employee of a telecoms company revealed such a thing and the equipment that was installed at the place he worked that did it (was a court case, all interesting and yet unsurprising stuff). Although the internet does route data packets in a seemingly arbitrary way there are key hubs that most traffic goes through. For example pretty much all traffic between the US and the UK goes through the same route.
Run a traceroute to any of your fave websites. In windows open up a shell by typing cmd in the run box, or find cmd.exe and then click on it. Then type tracert (like say type tracert facebook.com) do it with a few and you'll see the same groups of router/server addresses cropping up as it lists all the hops from you to the site. Er.. of course the first few hops will always be through your ISPs gear, disregard those.
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