On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:04:58 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:

Wannabe totalitarian regimes need to seize control of
communications to
publish disinformation, propaganda and censor everything else.

You need to think harder about what Openreach actually does.

I think that's the point, at least up to the word "communications".
Openreach carry the vast majority of the UK's communications, very
easy to sniff what's going where, who's communicating with who...

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Cheers
Dave.