Police set to step up hacking of home PCs

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.

[meepmoopmeep]

EYE HAVE YOU

beware the "La Li Lu Le Lo" o_O

[ZootHornRollo]

just started to say they do this

but its been going on for years

[Blasphemy]

Wow glad I don't live in Britain.

[pixelsword]

...They don't call it the new world order for nothin'.

[ZootHornRollo]

there is no new world order. its already here. there just putting it in place.

[Crazywhitie]

That would be nuts...

[buddyro]

wrong but that is invasion of privacy.

[ZootHornRollo]

every os has a back door. unless you hex'd lenix but then again any time you connect your self to the internet your giving any one with the power to access your computer.

and remember folks you cannot truly delete files from your computer

[uie4rhig]

its called eraser: http://www.tolvanen.com/era...

now.. start deleting your porn already :P

they'll be after your porn ^^,

[Bob Dole]

It's easy to truly delete files from a hard drive.

Step 1: Get a really big magnet.
Step 2: Stick it to your hard drive.
Step 3: Buy a new hard drive.

[ZootHornRollo]

there is no way to deleted files off your hd unless you get a big magnet and drop it on the hd.

nice try tho. havent you read about pedos being jail for cp they had when they first got there computer

[uie4rhig]

as i said eraser.. the hdd works with magnetic switches, when you delete a file, the switches have not been changed, if you however keep overwriting those switches, it will be impossible to see what the switches said.. e.g. a file called lolcat.exe takes up the following on the hdd (magnetic, just an example): 011100010000100101010000100101 001101001010101
and if you then keep overwriting it with 1's and zeroes (making it look like 1010101010101010, and then again overwrite 0101010101010101 etc..) it will be impossible to bring back the file if you do that a few times..

[d3l33t]

for this to be possible they need some sort of backdoor. I wonder if they have either installed software on specific machines or they have found a major security flaw

[Lon3wolf]

Yeah its called Windows.

[BX81]

Soon we will have a society like in Demolition man! "Murder, Death, Kill"

[Marojado]

and this story is the reason no one should have these powers...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...

[ChikaChikau]

They have passed a very similar law in Germany, the only difference is that they can only check your computer if you are suspected of some sort of "terrorism"

[Bob Dole]

Coulda sworn the Patriot Act made it legal for law enforcement to do this to us in the states as well...

[djslapdash]

Privacy is slowly dying

and Habeas Corpus is slowly becoming a myth.

[Lon3wolf]

I dont think its dying as such it's more nowadays you have to be rich to get some privacy.

[Panipal2005]

Politicians. Rope. Lamppost. Some assembly required.

[Lon3wolf]

And you think a politician will be able to work out how to build the final assembly?