Police set to step up hacking of home PCs

Tefal said:
weren't they only proposed, and never actually came into effect.
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No they are law in the criminal justice and immigration bill 2008. They begin enforcement this month.

Strife212 said:
Theres technology publicly available which can keylog you without any hardware or software - they could just sit in a car outside and read whats on your monitor and what you are typing. I don't mean over wireless or anything - it works by detecting radiation from devices.
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Lcd's don't emit the radiation, that only worked for crt monitors, supposedly anyway, I don't imagine it ever having been practical.
 
paradigm said:
Good luck getting past my PIX.
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Your PIX is irrelevant. Using that technique they wouldn't get past an el-cheapo NAT router unless it's a particularly poor and broken implementation.

Very few criminals do what they do completely alone, so while what's on an individual's PC may be of forensic significance, what they communicate with others is how criminals get caught. Good old-fashioned packet sniffing (or ISP black boxes) is what you need for that, and no PIX can protect you there. Don't rely on a proxy either because any public proxy can be tampered with.
 
Berserker said:
Your PIX is irrelevant. Using that technique they wouldn't get past an el-cheapo NAT router unless it's a particularly poor and broken implementation.

Very few criminals do what they do completely alone, so while what's on an individual's PC may be of forensic significance, what they communicate with others is how criminals get caught. Good old-fashioned packet sniffing (or ISP black boxes) is what you need for that, and no PIX can protect you there. Don't rely on a proxy either because any public proxy can be tampered with.
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However, packet encryption may cause them issues :)
 
Everyone better step up their security settings a few notches, all incoming and outgoing ports blocked except for the required ones which are heavily firewalled, stopping keyloggers and trojans sending back information to their host. :p
 
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Energize said:
No they are law in the criminal justice and immigration bill 2008. They begin enforcement this month.
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huh didn't know that.

knowledge123 said:
Not necessarily, you could easily have Virtualbox installed, and if you wanted to, you could use truecrypt for the files that Virtualbox uses (.vdi files).
So you wouldn't have to disturb your Windows installation at all, nor partition your drive, nor need to restart to use it. :p :)
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So how Much effort does this take? Performance hits etc? can it run 64 vista/win 7 or just 32?
 
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

In particular, the Act will:

introduce a new criminal of offence of incitement to hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation
clarify the law on self defence, articulating the state's responsibility to stand by those acting in good faith when using force in self defence
introduce new civil penalties for serious breaches of data protection principles
abolish the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel
reinstate the statutory ban on industrial action by prison officers
introduce a minimum tariff of two years for prisoners serving indeterminate public protection sentences
end automatic discounts for offenders given an indeterminate sentence after the initial sentencing decision has been judged unduly lenient
give powers for courts to make dangerous offenders given a discretionary life sentence serve a higher proportion of their tariff before being eligible for parole
create a presumption that trials in magistrates' courts will proceed in the event the accused fails to appear
introduce a new offence of possession of extreme pornographic images
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:eek:

The rest of the act sounds good though
 
Tefal said:
So how Much effort does this take? Performance hits etc? can it run 64 vista/win 7 or just 32?
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Any modern-day Core2Duo, 2GB+ RAM system should be able to run it pretty well. Both of these applications are easy to set up, you can run .iso files and install on Virtualbox into .vdi file. Then it's just setting Truecrypt up and putting the .vdi files into the mounted Truecrypt directory.
The latest version of Vitualbox does have 'better 64-bit support', but I would presume that you'd have to run the install on a 64 bit system to get it to work. The 'publicly available' version of Windows 7 would work.
 
Tefal said:
huh didn't know that.
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That's the idea, silently introduce it and then arrest those who commit the thought crime. Should the police really be spending their time going after people who have some dodgy videos on their computer, in the misguided hope of stopping them going on a rape rampage or something similar? I think not.
 
Just researched the act properly, it just bans actual torture porn and mutilation of genitals etc not BDSM, and that ban is fair enough to be honest :/
 
Strife212 said:
Just researched the act properly, it just bans actual torture porn and mutilation of genitals etc not BDSM, and that ban is fair enough to be honest :/
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Nope, it's very vague which would easily include bdsm. Notice the words "appear", even knowing the video is fake they could still prosecute you. They have in fact arrested people for consensual bdsm acts before, look up "operation spanner".
 
Strife212 said:
Just researched the act properly, it just bans actual torture porn and mutilation of genitals etc not BDSM, and that ban is fair enough to be honest :/
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how do you define "torture" if you use amnesty's standards then any BDSM involving a whip is torture.
 
a) an act which threatens a person’s life,
(b) an act which results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals,
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Which pretty much makes any of those body modification websites illegal as well.
 
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