AIBU to wonder if this is true?

[Classroomblues]

My friend was telling me (so not sure if it's true or she's heard from someone else) that if you use certain buzz words in an email, you could have the police knocking at your door and/or searching your house.
I knew that emails weren't private but didn't realise such a system of alerting the authorities was in place.

From what she said, I think it's mainly linked to threads of possible terrorism but not totally sure.

I am glad this isn't common knowledge as I'm sure there would be some teens who would do this deliberately just for fun!

My old phone used to autocorrect dd2's name to "bomb".

If this was true I imagine they have spent years wondering how to decode "dd2 is refusing to do homework again".

Is it saying 'Police' three times in a row, as in Candyman and Beetlejuice?

Dee

check out damnyouautocorrect.com
truly hilarious stuff

pelvic

candyman is 5 times.

Ahh, thank you Zing

Maybe you have to say 'police' 999 times?

ha!
luckily not.

according to a film series I've been watching almost 40 percent of emergency calls are the result of pocket dials. if it's true that is shockingly bad

although if they only appeared if you said "police" 999 times I wonder what the magic number is for deliveries!

(and I love your name.
Thanks for the reminder)

Closer - from the relevant Guardian article for your interest.

'According to GCHQ's legal advice, it was given the go-ahead by applying old law to new technology. The 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) requires the tapping of defined targets to be authorised by a warrant signed by the home secretary or foreign secretary.

However, an obscure clause allows the foreign secretary to sign a certificate for the interception of broad categories of material, as long as one end of the monitored communications is abroad. But the nature of modern fibre-optic communications means that a proportion of internal UK traffic is relayed abroad and then returns through the cables.'