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Story: Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace
Just wrong... but we do need improvements to tackling cybercrime...
We do need to improve our IT security from cybercrime, but shouldn't we be looking at other ways.
Either way, hacking is not legal for any of us - if I hacked into them they wouldn't like it. I'd be banged up..
The police is an invented organisation, they should NOT have the power to just delve in remotely onto our computers. They are OUR machines and we should be permitted to do what we like.
However where I do think we need changes is the Internet. We do need to improve fraud issues, viruses, terrorists.. but there's other ways than hacking our computers. I dont have a problem with ISPs keeping my traffic for a couple of years. I don't trust the government with that data and I think ISPs should say:
We've had a complaint about some traffic on ---- date, and we need to comply with the authorities.
This data will be disclosed to you in writing and passed to the government.
Then we should be able to see what was sent and then if we feel it's wrong we can justify it and complain. However, if this amount of expense and trouble is going to be required the average cop can't bugger about. Just an idea. But I wont tollerate hacking.. that's just wrong.
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