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The Police are now allowed to hack into your private computer

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MiKeY188

S For So Not Mature
Just say this think its an out rage.

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.
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Colm

Colm

New Member
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.
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Erm, yeah. So all EU police forces are allowed to access computers in the... UK?
It's nineteen eighty-four all over again, but only for one country?
 
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Gutya

New Member
What if they got the best hacker in Ireland who happens to use these forums?

Eran said:
It's nineteen eighty-four all over again, but only for one country?
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What? The plot of Nineteen Eighty-Four never actually happened you know?
 
Seth

Seth

MD Party Room
So encrypt your data,Use Linux,Run a full hardware Firewall,lock your ports. keep your wifi hidden....You know the Drill.


Or leave everything open and give them a Fork Bomb(It wont really stop them but it be funny to watch)...I really dont think a cop can get any tech savvy kid.
 
gr34t3st

gr34t3st

New Age Retro Hippie
Lol Mikey..

We just named 3 people that are pretty high up on the food chain that is mformature.
 
twelve

twelve

I'm not dead
Simple solution. Keep your [STRIKE]child porn[/STRIKE] pirated material on an external hard drive and only use at it when you're not online.

To be honest though it'll be very hard for them to do this without us knowing about it. If my HDD's suddenly start going spastic with activity I look to see what's doing it.
 
Sir_Axxewraith

Sir_Axxewraith

cant fux widdit
I'm fucked.

cya.
 
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