Boffins Not Snoopers

Britain's Head Boy has been having a bit of a burble about the latest excuse for not letting the surveillance state become too lean. "There's been a lot in the news recently about the techniques, ability and brilliance of the people involved in the intelligence community," Daveybloke burbled, apparently in reference to such upstanding moral characters as Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. Daveybloke burbled about the Second World War and the Enigma code-breakers, partly because mention of the Second World War is naturally orgasmogenic to the Conservative mind, and partly because the Second World War is the last time most of us can remember the British intelligence community doing something right. Daveybloke had a bit of a burble about using technology to do technological thingummies with the "dark internet", which is a place Daveybloke does know something about because that is where his pre-election promises have just been consigned. It's all in aid of preventing child abuse, of course; partly because the internet is being used by paedophiles, but mostly because few know better than the father of Little Ivan that children make handy propaganda tools.