European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 2, 2008 @04:58AM from the oh-you-needn't-come-into-the-office dept.

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."

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yeah by circletimessquare · 2008-12-02 05:21 · Score: -1, Troll

because with the government there is accountablity, responsilibty, a paper trail, transparency
and a grey hat is some yahoo in his parent's basement
your wisdom on who to trust is awesome

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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
BItCH by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-02 06:14 · Score: -1, Troll

Move any equipment An operating system to the transmiision