From The Register…

The head of the UK government’s secret electronic spying and codebreaking agency, GCHQ, has said that his organisation’s ability to intercept conversations and messages is seriously undermined by internet-protocol (IP) communications. The digital spook’s comments may come as a blow to British and European politicians who have sworn to eradicate terrorism from the internet.

The revelations came as part of the annual parliamentary oversight report into the doings of the UK intelligence community, which was released today. The report is compiled by the specially-vetted MPs and lords of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), who are allowed to review secret data and grill important mandarins from the shadowier parts of Whitehall…