CCDP (Was: April fools joke?)
Alec Muffett
alec.muffett at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 14:54:10 UTC 2012
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) and is comprehensively discussed at the OpenRightsGroup* wiki:
http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme
...and somewhat less comprehensively at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme
See also ZDNet from February, in case you think it's still an April 1st joke:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2012/02/20/isps-kept-in-dark-about-uks-plans-to-intercept-twitter-40095083/
- alec
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* disclosure: I help out with ORG in an unpaid capacity
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