We saw this happening in Canada some years back (Thanks, Drew!) with the government of the day proposing ISPs being turned into attractive targets for anyone wanting to impersonate people ("identity theft").

Worse, the kind of processing required to extract the metadata requires a machine the cost of one's main router, so people proposed ISPs should "just spool everything to disk" for a few days.

The next thought was to call for a longer retention period...

--dave
[It didn't pass, somewhat miraculously]

That's huge: in the UK the banks were temporarily able to do that by claiming chip-and-pin cards were secure (boy, was that not true). The courts threw it out, as you might imagine, but only after lots of people were defrauded.

In Canada, the banks are on the hook, and have refunded me both times their "unhackable" pin-and-chip card got hacked. We and the US are looking at card-and-signature systems, which have good customer protection as humans can verify claimed forgeries, just like cheques.

I'm David in general, DCB at work (there are lots of Daves), Orv as a nickname, Uncle Dave to my nephew when he was little, Mr Collier to all sorts of illiterate clerks. I have a pen-name, and a bunch of versions of my name required by email providers. My name also changed when I got married, as did my wife's.

When dealing with vendors I don't necessarily trust, I'm just "sir" and pay with cash. Considering the internet make it possible for vendors to be anywhere and anyone, I expect that we'll all to do more that way. My credit-card vendor, who already issues me single-use card-numbers for particularly suspicious vendors: I also expect to see single-use numbers with no name, just a single guaranteed amount.

Oh, and by the way, while I have to identify myself to get into the booth, my vote has no name attached.

--dave

It's front-page news for a soldier to be killed on duty in Canada. Believe it or not, it's also front-page news when an RCMP officer was killed on duty a few years back.

Canadians usually die from car accidents (or are eaten by polar bears (;-))

He was doing a ceremonial guard duty, as an honour. He probably didn't expect to be shot in the back.

The operational bases were on moderate alert, but apparently the PM didn't think he or anyone else needed to be careful...

If you don't care about constitutionality, you prohibit your legal draughtsmen from reporting on it, and you pass what you want. It's up to your opponents to find a good test case, and figure out how to pay for a challenge when they don't have standing.

IMHO, These are far too rational for Mr Moore to get past cabinet, as they might be seen as desirable regulation. The politics of the day is to avoid regulating (ie, policing) industry.

They're directly applicable to copyright trolling, by the way, and quite a good idea. I'll suggest that.

--dave