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UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs
toomanyairmiles writes "The Times of London reports that the United Kingdom's Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain to routinely 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 that drives 'a coach and horses' through privacy laws."
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Feh. I'm in the UK and using windows. I dont think I really have anything to w
Simple.
In other news, *foreign* governments are 'stepping up' hacking of UK submarines and warships installed with Windows :P
you had me at #!
Really? The recommended methodology of the police is the same as that used by opportunistic criminals to steal credit card information, that the police warn about?
C'mon, it's just impossible to satirize this kind of thing. It's not fair.
Security through promiscuity is no better than security through obscurity.
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I record my sleeptalking
I believe they crawl in through the tubes.
Just get her to sign the treaty.
Every couple minutes, just in case. Why do you ask?
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It's the government, and they're terribly out of touch you know...
In other news, the Tories are now the party of the left in the UK.
I dreamed of Freud: What does this mean?
It's only a newspaper story. It's confused as to whether the Home Office are operating this power or talking about it.
Just so. What's particularly suspicious is that although they have a quote from Liberty about this, there doesn't seem to be anything about it on Liberty's website -- this should be front-page news for them. In fact, the last thing Liberty has on the subject is this from last year, in which the European Court of Human Rights ruled that RIP was a violation of human rights and that the UK was obliged to add more transparency and accountability.
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better curry
As long as they are quiet when they physically break in, I'm ok with it.
Invasion of privacy is one thing, but loud noise I will not tolerate.
Oh, POINTED kitchen knives. Well, that's much better, isn't it? And physicians are definitely the sort of experts we want making the decisions on kitchen cutlery.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Damn, our spy program was foiled by Microsoft DRM!
Personally, I would like such ban just to see what tool will become next super weapon.
A broken bottle.
It's not a slippery slope anymore, it's a waterslide.
And soon it will be a water flat.
For safety reasons, you know.
And they should remove the water; someone could drown. Just a flat surface will be best.
How else do you puncture the film across the top of tray?
Allow me to introduce the "fork". Most models allow you to puncture the film four times in one go.
-- Soruk