Police computer hacking WITHOUT WARRANT to increase!

[Martial Arts Man]

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:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/art...


I'm sorry for positng yet another civil liberties thread.....I just feel very strongly about the subject; is it me or does the pace of these incidents seem to be getting quicker?


MAM

[Gun]

I guess they'd do this under the terrorism act, that one always looked like trouble when they introduced it!

[Saddle bum]

Must get my firewall upgraded.

[Martial Arts Man]

Does anyone know if there is a quick and easy way of protecting one's 'puter from Plod?

I don't have anything to hide (before the replies come in); and I realise that the chances of a random search are slight.


MAM

P.S. I would leave this country in a flash if I could....it breaks my heart that it has come to this!

[pies1981]

try this

Edited by pies1981 on Sunday 4th January 19:46

[Martial Arts Man]

pies1981 said:

try this

Oi!!!

No dodgy files round here!



MAM

[Jasandjules]

Gun said:

I guess they'd do this under the terrorism act, that one always looked like trouble when they introduced it!

Indeed.

So write to your MP and demand that our Civil Liberties are protected, those liberties our Grandparents fought to preserve..

[Parrot of Doom]

Just run a non-standard operating system, like Ubuntu or similar. If you're only using internet and email theres no need to have Vista or XP.

[pies1981]

Martial Arts Man said:

pies1981 said:

try this

Oi!!!

No dodgy files round here!



MAM

Sorry, only just learnt to use that let me google thing, im going into overkill a bit, i'll stop now!!

[Martial Arts Man]

pies1981 said:

Martial Arts Man said:

pies1981 said:

try this

Oi!!!

No dodgy files round here!



MAM

Sorry, only just learnt to use that let me google thing, im going into overkill a bit, i'll stop now!!

No, I'm a big boy.....tell you what, I'll help you get it out of your system....

How do you use the let me google tool?

What colour is the sky?

How long is a piece of string?

Need anymore??




MAM

[cs02rm0]

Good luck to them if they think they can find their way into my machine.

[gib6933]

Martial Arts Man said:

Does anyone know if there is a quick and easy way of protecting one's 'puter from Plod?

I don't have anything to hide (before the replies come in); and I realise that the chances of a random search are slight.


MAM

P.S. I would leave this country in a flash if I could....it breaks my heart that it has come to this!

A very quick fix is to switch it off

[mattley]

cs02rm0 said:

Good luck to them if they think they can find their way into my machine.

In the main they're looking at analysing your network traffic not your actual machine so your ISP is more important than any measures you take.

[Hollywood Wheels]

Have you any interest in cars at all? There is no mention of any under your profile, and you certainly don't EVER talk about them. Why exactly did you join PH?

[mybrainhurts]

How can I convincingly get some stuff on my PC, detailing how Gordon Brown is a KGB plant and Peter Mandelson is Osama Bin Laden in drag...?

[Plotloss]

Hollywood Wheels said:

Have you any interest in cars at all? There is no mention of any under your profile, and you certainly don't EVER talk about them. Why exactly did you join PH?

Well this is posted in the general interest section and there is nothing in the T&Cs to state that you must talk about cars.

[mybrainhurts]

Plotloss said:

Hollywood Wheels said:

Have you any interest in cars at all? There is no mention of any under your profile, and you certainly don't EVER talk about them. Why exactly did you join PH?

Well this is posted in the general interest section and there is nothing in the T&Cs to state that you must talk about cars.

Where the hell did that come from...?

[Hollywood Wheels]

Plotloss said:

Hollywood Wheels said:

Have you any interest in cars at all? There is no mention of any under your profile, and you certainly don't EVER talk about them. Why exactly did you join PH?

Well this is posted in the general interest section and there is nothing in the T&Cs to state that you must talk about cars.

Fair enough, I was just interested why someone would join a website like PH to keep posting this stuff. We all like a look in P&P, but most of us are here to talk about cars as well. I didn't realize it was a car/politics site, thanks for clearing that one up. I might join a few websites about politics and ask what induction kit I should be putting on the Lotus.

[Badgerboy]

I have an enterprise class firewall at home, with a DMZ and separate LAN segments for my data. Bring it you sgs. If your ISP starts handing out data though, you'd have to encrypt your traffic directly.

Edited by Badgerboy on Sunday 4th January 20:19

[mybrainhurts]

Hollywood Wheels said:

Plotloss said:

Hollywood Wheels said:

Have you any interest in cars at all? There is no mention of any under your profile, and you certainly don't EVER talk about them. Why exactly did you join PH?

Well this is posted in the general interest section and there is nothing in the T&Cs to state that you must talk about cars.

Fair enough, I was just interested why someone would join a website like PH to keep posting this stuff. We all like a look in P&P, but most of us are here to talk about cars as well. I didn't realize it was a car/politics site, thanks for clearing that one up. I might join a few websites about politics and ask what induction kit I should be putting on the Lotus.

The P&P was created to shift non-car stuff out of GG...

Wakey wakey...