Much controversy has erupted here over the new FRA law, which permits the Swedish spying service to intercept all cable traffic which crosses the Swedish borders. There are loads of 'safeguards' put in which probably mean that as long as the people involved keep to the law they won't actually be able to do anything useful, but of course once you build a tap into the cables who knows what will actually be seen.
If you want to send me [frank (at) mcnamara (dot) se] mail my public key is here.
I enjoyed this reworking of the Swedish national anthem on YouTube. While there I also found this (Swedish girls in the Army) little jem.
Much has been written about this, I'd just like to add that whilst I think the whole idea of the state poking about into people's private stuff stinks, this at least has shown that people don't like the idea. What's not said very much here is that most of the world works like this anyway, and that traffic on the Internet, phone etc. is already being searched through.
The odd thing is that here we have actually made a law allowing it, instead of in my former land (UK), where it almost certainly has been going on for years, just getting on with it and not telling anyone. But we have a written constitution of course.
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