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We saw it first crop up in the 1970s when Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman published on public-key encryption (something GCHQ had developed independently years before.) Such systems were labelled munitions, and their use and export severely limited – PGP creator Phil Zimmerman suffered three years of investigations in the 1990s over trying to allow private conversations.
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This must be one of Sir Keith’s worst nightmares.
Well known, popular left wing leader runs to be an independent mayor of London. Where have I heard that before?
Labour are recycling all the old “He’ll split the vote” arguments from that election too.
Again with this shite.
I wonder how many times Mr V. Putin from Moscow will vote?
And they’re starting to lay the ground for this.
The Met being the Met again:
I badly wanted to walk up those queues at Dover and Folkestone asking each driver if they voted for Brexit. Those that did would be told ‘You wanted to end freedom of movement? Mission accomplished - you’re not moving now, are you. Now fuck off back home and don’t dare come here again.’
This is what you want. This is what you get.
I didn’t have the strength to follow up on the Forde Report at the time, but here are a few bits.
ffs
Terf Island astroturfing.
AstroTERFing?
John Prescott striking countryside/fuel protester
A genuine, passionate (too passionate?) Labour politician.
So this is Johnson’s plan.
vilify
vĭl′ə-fī″
- To attack the reputation of (a person or thing) with strong or abusive criticism. synonym: malign.
- To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
- To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
If we lean on the second and third points then, absent a modern legal precedent for the meaning of “vilify”, wouldn’t that lead to the arrest of the entire Tory party. /s
Or perhaps he’s having one of those “L’État, c’est moi” moments. 
