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So long and thanks for all the bits

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Re: So long and thanks for all the bits

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Post by jhauris »

sacrosanct wrote: post #5

> thanks for all the bits Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?

I think it's a reference to "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Knowing Earth was going to be destroyed the dolphins leave, but they leave behind a message which when decoded translates to "so long and thanks for all the fish" (referring to how dolphins had trained humans to give them a fish when they did tricks).

Re: So long and thanks for all the bits

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Post by beardyw »

sacrosanct wrote: post #5

> thanks for all the bits Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?

Four identical answers must be true!

Re: So long and thanks for all the bits

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Post by ChrisRR »

sacrosanct wrote: post #5

> thanks for all the bits Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?

In addition to everyone who's given legitimate answers, it's also why they've used a picture of a dolphin and referenced "life, the universe and everything"

Re: So long and thanks for all the bits

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Post by beardyw »

beardyw wrote: post #12
sacrosanct wrote: post #5

> thanks for all the bits Am I missing something here? What's the headline supposed to mean? Is it a tongue-in-cheek gesture, since GCHQ routinely hoover up personal data and spy on both their citizenry and foreign countries?

Four identical answers must be true!

Five!

Re: So long and thanks for all the bits

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Post by laputan_machine »

> They were intended to provide more privacy to users from all sorts of parties, but mainly government and big tech companies. The problem is that DOH makes enterprise cyber security very hard and also damages things like ISP parental controls, and some filtering for child sexual abuse images

Man getting paid to spy on people complains about not being able to spy on people and uses the tried and tested "think of the children!" angle. Classic.

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