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Australian Police Given Covert Search and Hacking Powers
An anonymous reader writes "The NSW government of Australia has quietly introduced new police powers for covert home searches and covert hacking of computers. The suspect may not be notified of the covert activity for up to three years. These new powers are similar to those given to the UK police earlier this year. The new warrants can only be issued in the Supreme Court for suspected serious offences punishable by at least seven years jail — which includes computer crime offences."
Like putting a single eyelash on the door to see if it's been opened. But the better trick is the ol' bucket of water on top.
What?
Oh wait, I forgot.
to have Kangaroo Courts for real?
What?
If you think this is just tinfoil hat paranoia, perhaps you haven't heard of the Wood Royal Commission. There's good reason to be wary of the police of NSW, and I say that despite being someone who might not be alive today were it not for a detective's hard work.
I have said this for more years than I care to remember, the NSW Police are the best police force that money can buy.
Question 1 Please demonstrate the correct police procedure for gathering evidence from the rogue website "www.nastyTerrorPaedophiles.org".
Your answer
freedom4all:~$ nmap -A -T4 www.nastyTerrorPaedophiles.org
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Interesting ports on www.nastyTerrorPaedophiles.org:
Not shown: 1688 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh (protocol 2.0)
freedom4all:~$ ssh root@www.nastyTerrorPaedophiles.org
root@www.nastyTerrorPaedophiles.org's password:[britneyspears]
Permission denied, please try again.
root@www's password: [poshspice]
Permission denied, please try again.
root@www's password: [thepiratebay]
Last login: Mon Mar 2 22:58:01 2009 from disarray.nastyTerrorPaedophiles.org
root@www:~$ ls -l
total 13
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-02-27 09:01 My_Terror_Plans
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-02-27 09:05 My_Child_Porn_Movies
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2009-02-27 09:09 My_BitTorrent_Files
This message was scanned by European governments and contains no terrorism.
What's that Skippy ?
The drugs are hidden in the old mine ?
The police are hiding in the back of the farm ?
And little Jimmy has been taken out once and for all ?
Skippy, Skippy, Skippy the crack Kangeroo ... ...
Skippy, Skippy, there's a laser on his head for me and you
(Sorry, doesn't scan very well)