Comment by ajb

In a way, the cack-handed way they've gone about this makes me slightly more optimistic. If we must have such a law, please let it be one which:

* Creates a market for privacy tech of several million teenagers

* Wastes police time chasing down social forums which kids are hosting abroad using their pocket money

* Rubs the noses of the securirati in the fact that they've made it easier for terrorists to hide their comms among the thousands of teenage speakeasies

This is not the 80's when comms tech required capital and man-years of engineering. Setting up forums online isn't even a high-school project.