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Submission + - UK Police set to step up hacking of home PCs (timesonline.co.uk)

Submitted by toomanyairmiles on Sunday January 04, 2009 @02:30PM

toomanyairmiles writes: The Times of London reports that the United Kingdom's Home office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people's personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives "a coach and horses" through privacy laws.

Submission + - German police confused by Commadore 64

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on Tuesday September 05, 2006 @03:20PM

toomanyairmiles writes: "It seems Wolfgang Priklopil the communications technician who kidnapped Austrian pre-teen Natascha Kampusch relied on a Commodore 64 as his primary machine. Interestingly this is presenting some problems to the Austrian computer forensics people, Major General Gerhard Lang of the Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau told reporters it would "complicate investigators efforts" and would be difficult to transfer the files to modern computers "without loss". Could this be the latest in the criminal world's security efforts? Can we expect to see Spectrums, Archimedes, and Atari ST's turning up in police investigations soon?"

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