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Story: Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace

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Reflections of 9-11

It would be interesting to see if its legal to keep them from hacking into your system. Or would having a highly secure home computer system hooked to your cable or DSL line become prima-facie evidence that YOU are a criminal? (Obviously he's got something to hide. Let's go hack into that guy's system to find those naughty pictures so we can put him in jail before he does something EVEN WORSE!)

Assuming that if the police seem to think a suspect is "potentially going to commit a crime" the question becomes what did this potential terrorist or criminal or angry jobless IT nerd do to make the police think that he was "potentially" going to commit a crime?

How much pre-arrest surveillance do the police have to do to figure out that this potential terrorist was going to, at some time in the future, commit such a dastardly act as to merit such warrant-less lack of restraint by the police?

Please notice that you can't use the word "alleged" yet because he/she hasn't DONE ANYTHING ILLEGAL YET!

They made a really bad movie about this sort of thing called "Minority Report" starring the scientifically-challenged Tomas Cruising. I didn't realize that it was a reality-TV script for something that WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE!

And I thought the US Patriot Act was bad.

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