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."

Comments

lol

[snarfies]

Wow, good thing I have a firewall, built right into my router.

Re:Go right ahead....

[HappySmileMan]

If they search your /dev/random long enough they'll eventually find kiddie-porn so the joke's on you.

Enjoy prison

Re:propaganda and hysteria works both ways

[ODiV]

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.

Re:All the more reason...

[codemaster2b]

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)