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European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives
Smivs points out a blandly-worded story from the BBC with scary implications, excerpting "Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime. The five-year action plan will take steps to combat the growth in cyber theft and the machines used to spread spam and other malicious programs. It will also encourage better sharing of data among European police forces to track down and prosecute criminals. Europol will co-ordinate the investigative work and also issue alerts about cyber crime sprees."
Wow, good thing I have a firewall, built right into my router.
Can you repeat after me?
When this is implemented, it will be....
duh du duhnnn
Wait for it.....
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I would be worried that this would be badly worded and over-broad.
But, being a citizen of the UK, I know that even if legislation were made like this, then Her Majesty's Government would never abuse its powers and apply it to situations which were not originally intended.
Just like the anti-terrorism legislation.
Oh, hang on...
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With mild encryption so it gives them some time to kill.
Could be fun, could also backfire, I mean if they are allowed to do this they'll eventually be allowed to arrest you for wasting their time by doing something like that.
Blah.
I'm moving to Russia.
now in europe, this is exactly what they are going to do: shut down zombies, shut down spam relays, and everyone on slashdot babbles incoherently about teh ev1l gubmint invading our computers.
You've got the eighth comment! And judging by the length of your comment you probably didn't even see half of the previous ones before you posted.
if you instead spastically flail out everytime someone words an article in a propagandistic manner
Oh hi.
i wont allow it. and thats final.
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...apparently, they plan to infect your system with a remote access Trojan. But don't worry...it's for your own good.
Oh! That feels so much better with a Trojan. Should we all oil our hard drives beforehand to increase the pleasure?
The slashdot community never takes anything out of context.
Use what works.
(see the obfesicated C contesr for examples)
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No, the other half is people making bad youtube videos with bad acting, tone-deaf singing and faked nutshot accidents.
Absolutely! never trust any binary! I, of course, have designed my processor from scratch to run straight-up c++. No binaries for me!
(I have designed my own processor, and frankly, getting it to run 8 instructions was more than enough for me, lol)
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