Sweden To Wiretap All Internet And Phone Traffic
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Maybe I missed it or did Osama Bin Laden place Sweden on his hit list? Being a beacon for the threat of terrorism, the Swedish government has passed a wiretap law for all Internet and telephone traffic. But what is disturbing according to one source, is that that anyone entering into Swedish Internet space is subject to the law. In a remarkable turn of events. some are asking that Sweden be banned from the Internet. In the article it also states;
Many people have asked me what we’re planning to do - and the answer is “A lot!”. We’re going to help out in any way we can with fighting the law. This week we’re going to add SSL to The Pirate Bay. We’re also going to help out making a website about easy encryption - both for your harddrives and your net traffic. As some people know, we’re running a system for VPN-tunnels already and we’re going to lower the price for that as well and open it up for international users as well.
More stuff is planned - together with other people that work against the law we’ve talked about asking the international ISPs to block traffic to Sweden. Yes, that’s right! We want Sweden to be banned from the Internet. The ISPs need to block Sweden in order to protect their own customers integrity since everything they do on Swedish ISPs networks will be logged and searched.
Though this is just one persons thoughts, it does seem odd that Sweden would be taking such drastic steps. I haven’t read about any type of terrorist attacks against the Swedes. Have you?
Comments welcome.
3 Comments
leftystrat
June 23rd, 2008
at 10:18am
I find it somewhat alarming that Sweden chose to do this. We’ve come to expect it from totalitarian regimes like the UK and US, but Sweden?
This says to me that something’s up.
Switzerland’s probably next.
Btw, the assertion that one needs this type of spying and privacy invasion because of terrorism is a false one. It has been planted in our heads by gov’t over the ages but nowhere near as badly as the current regime, post its 9-11 false flag operation.
Don’t eat the brown acid!
Whocares
June 23rd, 2008
at 10:25am
I’m sure America already does the same thing. Just without letting it’s users know about it. From my point of view, anytime you are using a service that is not controlled 100% by you, such as internet, phone, etc. It’s already vulnerable for screening, either by the government or hackers/etc. We just not being told about it, because the next thing you going to hear is “what about my freedom”
jsf
June 23rd, 2008
at 6:41pm
But what else can you say but “what about my freedom”? In my high school government class, my instructor talked about freedom and how in America, no one has absolute freedom. He used the example that any one has the freedom to swing their arms around, but when you swing those arms around to the point where they land in someone’s face, then your freedom infringes on that person’s freedom, so we do not have absolute freedom so that one person’s freedom doesn’t infringe on someone else’s freedom. However, I would consider this the point where Sweden is swinging it’s arms, namely fists, in the international internet user’s face. Freedom? What about my freedom. I guess I’m going to do some learning about encryption algorithms.