British PCs can now hack your personal computer without a warrant

[Earthling Series #6]

The friendly British Bobby has just been given the right to remotely hack into the computers of UK citizens without notifying the owners, or bothering with a search warrant, or even passing an act of parliament for that matter.

A few months back the Brit police proved themselves not to be too worried about the small matter of search warrants when it comes to computers, data and privacy when City of London detectives closed the investigation into BT and Phorm.

Back then the police decided that BT users had given implied consent for BT to allow Phorm to secretly monitor their Internet usage, arguing that no offence had been committed as the trials were in the interest of the users.

Now it seems that the good old British Copper will use much the same argument if caught doing a little drive by hacking of your wireless connection to look at the data on your network. According to reports the Home Office has decided the police don't need a warrant to do this stuff.

The full article here

[Eric the Red]

For a more balanced view please see this page from The Register.

[Frands]

Earthling Series #6 ,
This is really bad news you are posting :shock: . I really agree that we have to defend us against crime and terrorism and all them things, but hopefully I don't have that many years left back on this earth if this trend is continuing that way in the future as described in the article. IMHO we are very to much out in the space instead of in the real world somehow :2cents: