irefay Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 The power of anti piracy organizations is constantly growing and latest news from Great Britain sounds somehow scary: The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to 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 which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws. The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room. Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.Under the Brussels edict, police across the EU have been given the green light to expand the implementation of a rarely used power involving warrantless intrusive surveillance of private property. The strategy will allow French, German and other EU forces to ask British officers to hack into someone’s UK computer and pass over any material gleaned. A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he “believes” that it is “proportionate” and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years. The authorities could break into a suspect’s home or office and insert a “key-logging” device into an individual’s computer. This would collect and, if necessary, transmit details of all the suspect’s keystrokes. The Home Office said it was working with other EU states to develop details of the proposals.Source: The Times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 Ok, so the concept is nothing new. I have it on good authority (I know someone who does it for a living) that the US government does this already with pedophiles. They have deals with all major firewall/ protection companies to let them in. Once in they wait until the computer is left on for an extended period of time (like when they are asleep). Then they create a disk image and back it up remotely. Even if there are file bombers, all they have to do is revert back to the original disk image copy. I HATE child molesters, but at the same time, I am split. We should do everything we can to catch the bastards but then it can make it easier for politicians to legislate BS like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 They just want to make their lives easier.While their at it, why not use a spy satellite :POh God, how I hate lazy bums like them :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace_Angel Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 WTF is this?They are fking moaning that piracy cost them billions and now they become the hackers...This is utter bullshit and the MPs should be jailed for that...What about the rights of the individual???This is not uncle sam's country; this is Europe for fuck sake and those Brits ass suckers should follow Sweden instead! How can dicks be pussies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Lol, you could try expressing your opinion with a little more, thought.File sharing(piracy) is not even nearly the same as hacking.I think they should be allowed to do stuff like this, I mean the chances of your computer being hacked by them without a proper reason for them doing so are slim as hell, and the chances of them nailing bastards in to stuff like this for them are changing from very slim to freaking great :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lildudespider Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 keyloggers are fairly easy to detect these days, the authorities would most likely use combinations of rootkits, keyloggers & trojans, possibly using UPNP to ensure proper port forwardingtake this as an oppertunity, not to protect your computer from the authorities, any idot can use linux to hack a windows machine locally, but use this as an example to protect yourself from outside threats, hackers these days cannot upload crap to your computer easily, they need you to run trojans etcalways use antivirus and run antimalware, spyware and crapwear cleaning utilities religiouslyyes i agree if you are under investigation, authorities should just confiscate your hard drives and backups, this backdoor stuff is ridiculous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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