Interesting Links for 31-10-2011

[andrewducker]

• Now _this_ is welfare fraud. 97% of Long Island Railroad workers retire on disability...
  
  (tags: welfare usa disability fraud )
• Met Police spends millions of pounds on secret aircraft to eavesdrop on mobile calls
  
  (tags: police london uk spying )
• Prince Charles has the power to veto some government legislation
  
  (tags: uk royalty politics law wtf )
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Comments

[princealbert]

Met Police spends millions of fraudulently accounted for pounds on secret aircraft to eavesdrop on mobile calls
Fixed that for you.

[princealbert]

"The disclosure of the spending, which is not detailed in official accounts"

[hirez]

Good heavens. Does this mean that The Plod have been able to crack A5/1 at will?

[andrewducker]

Interesting question:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/metropolitan-police-mobile-phone-surveillance

[hirez]

I read that as 'Plod have bought a bogus base-station/EMX and probably don't have to decrypt the over-the-air traffic any more.'

Fucksake.