General Chat

I missed most of Spooks first time around as I was abroad and watching BBC TV via VPN was in its infancy even if you had a good enough connection. Now it is just the sort of antidote to reality that people need.

What always amazed me with Spooks is (a) they can always get a high speed connection onto their mobiles even deep with the deep concrete canyons of the City of London and even the offices (b) their ability to crack logins in moments (c) access to a never ending network of CCTV (d) provision of upmarket expensive wheels for all ranks. If this was reality money laundering, terrorism, the City of London and West End estate agents would come to an instant stop.

I wonder what people think the good folks at Nine Elms do other than the D.T. crossword? Maybe the Scaly Backs know.

In dreams ...

Have we gone 'off track' RTR , or are we just trying to be 'clever'?

YOU were the one with the surveillance theory, and it's potential necessity.
Are you now admitting your scaremongering was just the usual tripe?

1 phone tracking for C-41 is a fact in some democratic countries
2 it is def being considered by UKGov but no decisions have been taken
3 I am and always have been against it

wherever you did your speed reading course ask for a refund.

I have not seen Hunted, Bobtanian.

Should I put it on my list of things to watch while confined to barracks? :-D

This was my reply on the thread that's just been deleted by RTR

If anyone had knowledge of the hoops that GCHQ had to jump through to get Home Office authority to track even people of interest they wouldn't assume (wrongly) that this is a simple exercise.

Data collection and analysis is only as good as the accuracy of reporting and it can never be accurate in tracking covid19 victims and presumed possible victims via proximity. The technology doesn't exist and it will be ineffective because it wasn't implemented from day one. Add to that no testing and you see the problem.

Joy Louise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunted_(2015_TV_series)

RTR, many things are being 'considered' by this Government.
Very few come to proper fruition - full PPE for example.

As Sue has said, and as the article I quoted says, without testing - it's useless!

Yes, a few idiots may download the app - some people believe the more cr*p they have on their phone, the more 'technology savvy' they are, and they deserve all they get - but anyone with a modicum of sense wouldn't.

We must not forget the unprincipled, of course; those for whom boundaries and rules do not exist.

Bobtanian, thank you. I shall take a look.