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Aussie Cops Want Powers To Search Any Computer

Posted by kdawson on from the cold-dead-fingers dept.

goatherder23 writes in with news that the New South Wales cabinet has proposed new powers for police to search computers anywhere under a search warrant, and adds: "The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse are invoked to explain why police need the new laws, which have yet to be introduced into Parliament. Would someone please explain to them before this happens that all computers on the Internet are "networked" and that some computers may be found outside NSW (or even Australia)?" "Police Minister David Campbell says police are currently only able to search computer hardware found on a premises named in a search warrant. He says with the changes, they will be able to go a step further and search other networked computers, regardless of where they are located. 'What we know is that there are organized crime gangs who use the Internet and other forms of technology to hide their crimes,' he said."

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  1. Re:Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse? by Sabz5150 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's number four?

    SCO.

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  2. Re:Get a warrant for one computer, get a warrant f by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Before today you would have thought "Government Seeks Warrant to Search the Internet" was a headline from The Onion.

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  3. Re:Ineffective by c0p0n · · Score: 5, Funny
    Couldn't they just low-level image it and give the drives back? [...]

    Verbing weirds language.

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