[UK] Police Given New Powers to hack your PC

[Star Wars Fan]

So, after dealing with monitoring your communications/email/etc with soem program probably like CARNIVORE, or confiscating your computer hardware, or even making up new BS moralist laws in the UK, now the police can install keyloggers or try to phish your shit

also lol

Hacking – known as "remote searching" – has been quietly adopted by police across Britain following the development of technology to access computers' contents at a distance. Police say it is vital for tracking cyber-criminals and paedophiles and is used sparingly but civil liberties groups fear it is about to be vastly expanded.

Wait...so they're going to track down the guys and send them an email with a trojan to get all their shit..I don't think a hacker, especially if it's used rarely (ie guy who vandalizes shitloads of sites for vengeance or whatnot).

Remote searching can be achieved by sending an email containing a virus to a suspect's computer which then transmits information about email contents and web-browsing habits to a distant surveillance team.

If they're going after 'cyber-criminals' I hope those "criminals" know not to open attached files from random people. And hopefully the anti-virus detects this. I wonder if the police is making their own virii or simply ripping them off the warez community?

Alternatively, "key-logging" devices can be inserted into a computer that relay details of each key hit by its owner.

There are hardware keyloggers as well...so the PartyV& could break into your house to install them, possibly....:wtf:

Detectives can also monitor the contents of a suspect's computer hard-drive via a wireless network.

for those in the UK: how does it feel to have the damn government able to browse where your move your files or what format they are or what programs you use.

link:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/li...-14128782.html