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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
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.
I believe they crawl in through the tubes.
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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.
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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.
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