I think hacking has one big downside compared to traditional phone tapping. It is possible person being hacked can detect this and make counter measures against it OR even supply false information. For police standpoint I would consider information gained through hacking very unreliable.

In Finland we don't have jury trials. There is judge and 2 or more lay judges who decide the matter in hand.

I have already ditched all internal optical drives of my computers. I have one usb dvd burner/drive in case if I need one.

After few notices they will make sure that dl'ers are not found dl'ing any illegal stuff. For example by using vpn's.

nitpicking but fair enough

I Wonder how often these kind of conversations are held inside of a corporation and never see light of day. At least GNU movement is candid and open about the kind of mishaps.

On side note Arch Linux encrypts the hibernation file also if you do root encryption with arch linux wiki instruction. On resume it will ask pw for decryption.

I call this report as terrorist reports since it would suggest to take more lenient approach against it :D

Yup, I was in china in a conference few years back and bypassing the firewall to get to the facebook was as simple as ssh -D 1234 username@my.server.com. And then setting browser proxy setting correctly.

Although I come from Finland I have noticed a trend with young people, they don't own TV anymore. All have computers that they use to watch stuff from the net but no TV. Now national TV channel is forcing everybody to pay license even though you don't own TV. I guess it was reaction to declining license collection rates.

I have a thought. Google can block France completely...

I Wonder what if you don't actually have any of those accounts. For me I don't have twitter or linkedin accout at all.

p2p traffic down 10%. vpn traffic up 10% :D

http://images.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/9699214.jpg this sh

Yeah I think so that this is viable solution but as always when adding complexity possible attack vectors increase.