Police set to step up hacking of home PCs in Britain

[KlUe]

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.

Source

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/poli...icle5439604.ece

This is a joke... Let's wait and watch the rest of the world follow suit...

[MindExpansion]

Tick tock...thats the clock ticking on the impeding rebellion.

[Yawning Man]

Was i asleep when the world became a dictatorship? I'm with mind here, it might take a while for the anger to seep through the laziness but eventually people are going to do something about the fundamental freedoms slowly being taken away. There's no line anymore.

cheers

[Chiral]

Minority report.

H.

[JDanger]

Was i asleep when the world became a dictatorship?

I had that very same feeling this afternoon. Give it another ~4 years.

[Chiral]

According to the Australian IT News website Police in the UK have being given the green light to hack into people's computers without a warrant. This move can only be described as a sinister extension of the surveillance state. Which I believe now the distinction between good and evil are now starting to merge. This type of hacking is known as "remote searching" and what it does is to allow British police or MI5 officers to remotely examine a hard drive secretly whether it is at someones home, in their office, in a hotel room, etc.

The material that can be gathered by using this remote searching are emails, web browsing habits and instant messaging e.g. Skype, MSN Messenger, etc.

As far as I am concerned no matter what they call it remote searching etc. This is still a form of black hat hacking and it does not give the British police or any other organisation for that matter the right to hack into someones computer with out a court order. It is still trespassing and entering a persons computer with out their permission and spying on a persons activities is still black hat hacking no matter what the British Government wants to call it. It is a downright disgrace because what the British Government is doing is the same as what everyday hackers do which is spy, steal, con, and gather information on unsuspecting victims.

One of the methods that the British police are going to use is key-logging software which is a program which records all of your keystrokes on a computer. So basically they are going to install Malware/Spyware on your computer. This is why I am saying that the line between good and evil is starting to merge.

Shame on you the British government. You have made what science fiction movies about surveillance states become a reality. Not only does Britain have the most number of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) surveillance in the world. Now the British government is saying that it is ok to spy on normal everyday grassroots people by using other methods of technology. Just because some police geek who may be thousands of kilometers away thinks that you may be a criminal. Forget about the justice system. The the police have just become the judge and executioner as well.

I'd say that its been given the green light here and other countries as well..911 has assured us all that this type of monitoring is big business and is now firmly embedded as a form of intelligence and security.

Don't disregard these news notice's and warnings if you want to keep on top of things.

H.

[MindExpansion]

Download Spybot S&D, AVAST, SimpLite or equivalent, use them and keep them updated, don't save you messages, PM or IM convo's on your pc or in your email inbox. Regularly delete your cookies and clear your viewing histories, be careful what you bookmark and perhaps if you are really paranoid, keep a password protected RAR (or equiv.) with all your sensitive files in it, it only takes a second longer to extract a file from a rar file and it makes your info a lot harder to gather, then delete the extracted copy when done (perhaps look into a program that can properly delete your files, something like FileShreader might do the job but whether it works as it says or not im not sure about, and whether you can do it file at a time or only by formatting the drive I'm not sure).

Hmmm writing that i think its time to update my security a little...dont think ill go to the rar extremes but SimpLite or something like that seems like a worthwhile download to me.

Peace

Edited January 20, 2009 by MindExpansion

[gromit]

[themagicmushroom]

Download Spybot S&D, AVAST, SimpLite or equivalent, use them and keep them updated, don't save you messages, PM or IM convo's on your pc or in your email inbox. Regularly delete your cookies and clear your viewing histories, be careful what you bookmark and perhaps if you are really paranoid, keep a password protected RAR (or equiv.) with all your sensitive files in it, it only takes a second longer to extract a file from a rar file and it makes your info a lot harder to gather, then delete the extracted copy when done (perhaps look into a program that can properly delete your files, something like FileShreader might do the job but whether it works as it says or not im not sure about, and whether you can do it file at a time or only by formatting the drive I'm not sure).

Hmmm writing that i think its time to update my security a little...dont think ill go to the rar extremes but SimpLite or something like that seems like a worthwhile download to me.

Peace

fyi

USB drive w/

Firefox Portable

-Foxyproxy

-Tor

Thunderbird Portable

-enigmail

-gpg

All inside a truecrypt shell

Portable, secure browsing