EU legislation will allow authorities search your PC remotly without a warrent.

Run_to_da_hills · 05-01-2009 02:25PM #1

Police and state intelligence agencies from several countries may soon be working together to secretly hack into private citizens' personal computers without their knowledge and without a warrant.

According to a London Times report, the police hacking process, called "remote searching," enables law enforcement to gather information from e-mails, instant messages and Web browsers, even while hundreds of miles away.

A new edict by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels has paved the way for international law enforcement agencies to begin remote searching and sharing the information with each other.

According to the Times, the United Kingdom's Home Office, the nation's lead government department for immigration, drugs and counter-terrorism enforcement, has already quietly adopted a plan that would enable French, German and other European Union police forces to request remote searching be done on UK citizens' computers.

This is as intrusive as someone busting down your hall door and coming into your home.

This just gives us siome insight to the type of envasive totalitarian control we can expect from the EU and all this is before the European Constitution gets ratified.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece

Galvasean · 05-01-2009 02:27PM

Oh no

Quazzie · 05-01-2009 02:27PM

Snyper is NOT gonna like this!!!

AnonoBoy · 05-01-2009 02:34PM

I've missed you Run_to_da_Hills.

It's great to be back at work again!

Sarky · 05-01-2009 02:36PM

Damn fatcats, stealing our megahurtz and our... Well, stealing our megahurtz.

chin_grin · 05-01-2009 02:39PM

Quick guys. EVERYONE. Turn your PC's off.

shenanigans1982 · 05-01-2009 02:41PM

Lets all look up porn so when they search through our PC's they will think all we do is look at porn.

dr.bollocko · 05-01-2009 02:42PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Quick guys. EVERYONE. Turn your PC's off.

Done!
fnaw fnaw fnaw.

Danbo! · 05-01-2009 02:44PM

What about this part?

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

followed by

Police say that such methods are necessary to investigate suspects who use cyberspace to carry out crimes. These include paedophiles, internet fraudsters, identity thieves and terrorists.

Im not a paedophile, an internet fraudster, an identity thief or a terrorist. So unless you are, who cares?

AnonoBoy · 05-01-2009 02:47PM

....and this is why I use a Mac.

*self-satisfied smug grin*

Nodin · 05-01-2009 02:47PM

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Lets all look up porn so when they search through our PC's they will think all we do is look at porn.

And if everyone looks at porn, that'll create the perfect cover for looking at porn.

Mind you, I've already wrapped my PC in tinfoil, put a false beard on it and called it "Gerry". It'll tell them nothin...

Donald-Duck · 05-01-2009 02:49PM

noblestee wrote: »

What about this part?

followed by

Im not a paedophile, an internet fraudster, an identity thief or a terrorist. So unless you are, who cares?

BECAUSE THE EU ARE TRYING TO CONTROL OUR LIVES. It's an RTDH thread, he strives for the attention by selectivly cutting and pasting into his OP.

ScumLord · 05-01-2009 02:49PM

They've just ruined spy movies for our grandchildren.

Earthhorse · 05-01-2009 02:50PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Quick guys. EVERYONE. Turn your PC's off.

Is he gone yet?

LEIN · 05-01-2009 02:51PM

noblestee wrote: »

Im not a paedophile, an internet fraudster, an identity thief or a terrorist. So unless you are, who cares?

Fair point but my business is mine. I have noting to hide but id rather Keep my personal information personal.

Run_to_da_hills · 05-01-2009 02:51PM

noblestee wrote: »

What about this part?

followed by

Im not a paedophile, an internet fraudster, an identity thief or a terrorist. So unless you are, who cares?

Would you let the authorities into your house and rummage through your filing cabinet and personal belongings including letters etc without a warrent?

shenanigans1982 · 05-01-2009 02:52PM

noblestee wrote: »

Im not a paedophile, an internet fraudster, an identity thief or a terrorist. So unless you are, who cares?

Neither was Jean Charles De Mendez....be careful or British police will shoot you from inside your monitor.

Donald-Duck · 05-01-2009 02:52PM

Damo9090 wrote: »

Fair point but my business is mine. I have noting to hide but id rather Keep my personal information personal.

Well what business do you do that would lead them to suspect you enough to search your pc?

Donald-Duck · 05-01-2009 02:52PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Would you let the authorities into your house and rummage through your filing cabinet and personal belongings without a warrent?

If they had reasonable belief I wouldn't care less.

Guy:Incognito · 05-01-2009 02:54PM

Damo9090 wrote: »

Fair point but my business is mine. I have noting to hide but id rather Keep my personal information personal.

You should really get off tinternet so. If goverments can decide to do it, there are a lot more clever people about that could decide to have a snoop if they choose.

I'm looking at you gay animal porn right now as it happens.

Donald-Duck wrote: »

If they had reasonable belief I wouldn't care less.

They can look anywhere except my thong drawer.

LEIN · 05-01-2009 02:54PM

Donald-Duck wrote: »

Well what business do you do that would lead them to suspect you enough to search your pc?

Sh1t there on to me! Time to burn my hard drive!

chin_grin · 05-01-2009 02:55PM

Aw shucks. My fantasy of frollicking freely on AH has been ruined again. I'll get you next time gadget. <meow>

BaconZombie · 05-01-2009 02:55PM

If that did why not just get a search warrant in the first place?

Donald-Duck wrote: »

If they had reasonable belief I wouldn't care less.

MackDeToaster · 05-01-2009 02:56PM

noblestee wrote: »

Im not a paedophile, an internet fraudster, an identity thief or a terrorist. So unless you are, who cares?

Civil liberties ? Innocent unless proven guilty ? It's all mission creep and you can be sure this is only more of the same.

i don't wear a tinfoil hat but you only have to look at the UK and witness Gordon Brown shutting down Icelandic banks using anti-terrorist legislation of all things, or anti-terrorist legislation being used by county councils to see who's trying to get their kids into schools in different boroughs and the like to see how these powers are abused and used far beyond their supposed original remit.

banshee_bones · 05-01-2009 02:57PM

Damo9090 wrote: »

Fair point but my business is mine. I have noting to hide but id rather Keep my personal information personal.

Exactly. It is still an invasion of privacy

LEIN · 05-01-2009 02:57PM

Stekelly wrote: »

You should really get off tinternet so. If goverments can decide to do it, there are a lot more clever people about that could decide to have a snoop if they choose.

I'm looking at your gay animal porn right now as it happens.

Its for a project i am doing up. I swear.:D

I really do put too much trust in my anti-virus!

Guy:Incognito · 05-01-2009 02:58PM

BOFH_139 wrote: »

If that did why not just get a search warrant in the first place?

Whats the difference? All this is doing is cutting out the going to a judge or whoever and getting a warrant bit.

Mountain range out of a molehill tbh.

Damo9090 wrote: »

Its for a project i am doing up. I swear.:D

pffffft "research for a book" ftw.:)

Personnally I'm creating an annual of all the filthiest muck on the internet.:D

Danbo! · 05-01-2009 02:59PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Would you let the authorities into your house and rummage through your filing cabinet and personal belongings including letters etc without a warrent?

If they had a good reason to then yes, just to disprove them.

Cow Moolester · 05-01-2009 03:00PM

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Lets all look up porn so when they search through our PC's they will think all we do is look at porn.

Pshh...like I need to be told to do that:rolleyes:

Guy:Incognito · 05-01-2009 03:00PM

noblestee wrote: »

If they had a good reason to then yes, just to disprove them.

If anything they'd probably just find some stuff for you that you thought you'd lost.

Guy:Incognito · 05-01-2009 03:02PM

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Lets all look up porn so when they search through our PC's they will think all we do is look at porn.

I've known this was coming for years and have already put in the leg work.

EU legislation will allow authorities search your PC remotly without a warrent.

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