On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 Apr 2012, at 15:30, Justin Wilson wrote:
I hate April 1 on the Web. You are right you never can tell. I would be appalled if someone as respectable as the BBC stoops to downright dumb pranks.
It is true.
It's called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP)
More details (from a fairly level-headed viewpoint) have been published at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/02/ccdp_government_snooping_plans/. It looks like for more details we'll have to wait for the Queen's Speech on the 9th of May (and the following white / command papers and other guff) when it looks like she'll announce it with all the other legislation her government will try to pass over the next year. Alex