the hidden text posted on Facebook, a porno site, or an innocent hobby site, thus avoiding detection by traffic analysis. Re: Big Brother fail The 9/11 terrorists would not have been caught out by this sort of snooping technique, because they were using a webmail service effectively as a dead drop, saving messages to each other in a Drafts section and never actually sending any messages over email at all. A slightly more sophisticated method is to use public-private key encryption and put the messages out on public usenet groups; everyone gets to see that the sender has sent something, but only the holder of the correct private key can decrypt it. The technology to render this sort of ham-fisted surveillance attempt already exists, you see. Moving on, VPNs and out-of-country webmail is also a good way to go; especially if the webmail is located in a non-EU country that isn't keen on helping incompetent pseudo-Stasi states spy on their citizenry. Effectively what this bill will do is provide police and councils with a way of spying on the unwary, the stupid and the innocent whilst the guilty, the dodgy and the merely prudent use technological means to protect themselves from our dozy spies. On the plus side, repealing this mess gives the next government something to promise the proles so that they can get elected. Disgusting "On the issue of a warrant system being used when public bodies wanted access to comms data, both McGregor and Thornton said it