According to the Australian IT News website Police in the UK have being given the green light to hack into people's computers without a warrant. This move can only be described as a sinister extension of the surveillance state. Which I believe now the distinction between good and evil are now starting to merge. This type of hacking is known as "remote searching" and what it does is to allow British police or MI5 officers to remotely examine a hard drive secretly whether it is at someones home, in their office, in a hotel room, etc.
The material that can be gathered by using this remote searching are emails, web browsing habits and instant messaging e.g. Skype, MSN Messenger, etc.
As far as I am concerned no matter what they call it remote searching etc. This is still a form of black hat hacking and it does not give the British police or any other organisation for that matter the right to hack into someones computer with out a court order. It is still trespassing and entering a persons computer with out their permission and spying on a persons activities is still black hat hacking no matter what the British Government wants to call it. It is a downright disgrace because what the British Government is doing is the same as what everyday hackers do which is spy, steal, con, and gather information on unsuspecting victims.
One of the methods that the British police are going to use is key-logging software which is a program which records all of your keystrokes on a computer. So basically they are going to install Malware/Spyware on your computer. This is why I am saying that the line between good and evil is starting to merge.
Shame on you the British government. You have made what science fiction movies about surveillance states become a reality. Not only does Britain have the most number of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) surveillance in the world. Now the British government is saying that it is ok to spy on normal everyday grassroots people by using other methods of technology. Just because some police geek who may be thousands of kilometers away thinks that you may be a criminal. Forget about the justice system. The the police have just become the judge and executioner as well.
It makes the British police no different from what our local boys in blue do in PNG where they are the police, judge, and executioner as well. For example the recent Tete settlement incident in Port Moresby (see Robert@PNG for full story). It is a scary state of affairs when big powerful governments like the British government think that it is ok to be a surveillance state. It now makes me wounder, now that the British government has taken the step to say that it is ok to spy on people in the UK! Will other governments around the world take its lead. I certainly hope not. But governments around the world have a habit of doing things that they think is a good thing at the time and not giving two hoots about the ramifications of what is going to take place down the track.
For example the GST tax in PNG was done just because at the time other countries around the world were doing it e.g. Australia, England, etc. The PNG Government at the time did not take into account how it was going to affect the everyday grassroot wantoks of PNG. All they could see was a revenue maker for the government. The result of the GST is, now not only do we get taxed for the few kina that we make. We also get taxed every time we go to the shop to buy something. It is OK for all the Fat Cat policy makers in PNG to come up with all these decisions but what they don't take into consideration is what the end result is going to be for the grassroot wantoks on the streets and villages in PNG. Another example which is the new minimum wage that was recently set. The government has a total disregard for what is going to happen to small business in PNG that can not afford to pay the new minimum wages. Let alone farms etc that are going to lay off workers simply because they can not afford the labour costs. Another example of the Fat Cats @ Waigani not thinking things through. They fail to take in to consider a simple economics theory of elasticity (where supply meets demand). Meaning at higher prices there is going to be less demand for a work force.
The material that can be gathered by using this remote searching are emails, web browsing habits and instant messaging e.g. Skype, MSN Messenger, etc.
As far as I am concerned no matter what they call it remote searching etc. This is still a form of black hat hacking and it does not give the British police or any other organisation for that matter the right to hack into someones computer with out a court order. It is still trespassing and entering a persons computer with out their permission and spying on a persons activities is still black hat hacking no matter what the British Government wants to call it. It is a downright disgrace because what the British Government is doing is the same as what everyday hackers do which is spy, steal, con, and gather information on unsuspecting victims.
One of the methods that the British police are going to use is key-logging software which is a program which records all of your keystrokes on a computer. So basically they are going to install Malware/Spyware on your computer. This is why I am saying that the line between good and evil is starting to merge.
Shame on you the British government. You have made what science fiction movies about surveillance states become a reality. Not only does Britain have the most number of Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) surveillance in the world. Now the British government is saying that it is ok to spy on normal everyday grassroots people by using other methods of technology. Just because some police geek who may be thousands of kilometers away thinks that you may be a criminal. Forget about the justice system. The the police have just become the judge and executioner as well.
It makes the British police no different from what our local boys in blue do in PNG where they are the police, judge, and executioner as well. For example the recent Tete settlement incident in Port Moresby (see Robert@PNG for full story). It is a scary state of affairs when big powerful governments like the British government think that it is ok to be a surveillance state. It now makes me wounder, now that the British government has taken the step to say that it is ok to spy on people in the UK! Will other governments around the world take its lead. I certainly hope not. But governments around the world have a habit of doing things that they think is a good thing at the time and not giving two hoots about the ramifications of what is going to take place down the track.
For example the GST tax in PNG was done just because at the time other countries around the world were doing it e.g. Australia, England, etc. The PNG Government at the time did not take into account how it was going to affect the everyday grassroot wantoks of PNG. All they could see was a revenue maker for the government. The result of the GST is, now not only do we get taxed for the few kina that we make. We also get taxed every time we go to the shop to buy something. It is OK for all the Fat Cat policy makers in PNG to come up with all these decisions but what they don't take into consideration is what the end result is going to be for the grassroot wantoks on the streets and villages in PNG. Another example which is the new minimum wage that was recently set. The government has a total disregard for what is going to happen to small business in PNG that can not afford to pay the new minimum wages. Let alone farms etc that are going to lay off workers simply because they can not afford the labour costs. Another example of the Fat Cats @ Waigani not thinking things through. They fail to take in to consider a simple economics theory of elasticity (where supply meets demand). Meaning at higher prices there is going to be less demand for a work force.
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