The power of anti piracy organizations is constantly growing and latest news from Great Britain sounds somehow scary: The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws. The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room. Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.
Under the Brussels edict, police across the EU have been given the green light to expand the implementation of a rarely used power involving warrantless intrusive surveillance of private property. The strategy will allow French, German and other EU forces to ask British officers to hack into someone’s UK computer and pass over any material gleaned. A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he “believes” that it is “proportionate” and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years. The authorities could break into a suspect’s home or office and insert a “key-logging” device into an individual’s computer. This would collect and, if necessary, transmit details of all the suspect’s keystrokes. The Home Office said it was working with other EU states to develop details of the proposals.
Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny.
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Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded
Jan-06-2009 03:55
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... better not be The Onion again
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As usual, the journalists have mangled all of the facts when it comes to technology. This one in particular appears to be conflating two separate issues, the first being the ability to monitor internet traffic, which law enforcement can already do (I believe this is what they've decided no longer needs a warrant), and physically installing a key logger or other monitoring device on a personal PC, which is essentially equivalent to bugging a phone.
It's not even possible for someone to "hack" into a private PC and collect personal data. Half of the PCs online today, if not more, are behind some sort of router/firewall and can't even be reached from the outside world unless the router has been specifically configured to forward that traffic. Almost everybody on a wifi network is part of this group, or anybody sharing a single internet connection among multiple PCs.
Long story short: most of the story including the headline is pure nonsense.
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