Perhaps we should recall that Islamic fundamentalists have long been more sophisticated than revolutionary West in their use of technology - they have long been early adopters — use the sermons cassette tapes in the race until the overthrow of the Shah in their use of the Internet since the beginning of the 1990s.
We shouldn't be surprised that they are also more sophisticated in their use to maintain power. By comparing our attempts to throw £ billion monitoring without addressing the "rules of evidence" so that it can be used show a mix of politically naïve and cowardice – unless the "objective" is really to cancel the "glorious revolution" of 1688 and returns to State "leviathon."
We must be able to use "extracts proven" surveillance and equipment to take effective action in the courts (not only terrorist) organised crime without having to give the defence team petabytes of interception to analyze (the legal aid budget support). Not only will be that reduce the time and costs, it will be also reduces the possibility to analyse materials for defence identification team who has been involved in surveillance operations: the first step to enable their customers to add to the list of witnesses and potential to follow, traced and "deleted".
It that we want to preserve the rule of law and democratic accountability in the Internet age we must find ways to prevent our Justice system from drowning in data at the same time as allowing judges and juries of the "evidence" to see and understand its provenance. I would say that at least half of those participating in any exercise to examine the issues in this spave should have also vowed.
My point of view on the rules of evidence have been transformed by my experiences as a juror. We spent most of our time for learning about each other while counsel argued on a Ribbon of CCTV grotty bits we could see and what we could be said about the defendents. My fellow jurors were far more rational and responsible in their approach to the "system" of them allowed - it's if you believed that the objective was to know whether the defendents were guilty, not to mention what happened and that justice was done.
Without such action, it can only be a matter of time before we too relearn the rules of the revolution and counterrevolution - albeit updated for an age of the Internet.
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