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If someone sends you an Email with an attached virus designed to hack into your computer and send information to a remote computer, that's illegal.
If someone breaks into your home and installs a keystroke logger into your keyboard, that's illegal.
If someone parks outside your home and hacks in to your wireless network, that's illegal.
Unless it's the police doing it. Then it's all okay.
Nothing to worry about. It's regulated by RIPA so it'll never be abused. Okay, you can laugh now. When you've finished, strengthen your firewall, replace your wireless network with a wired one and get a second USB keyboard - which you take from its hiding place, plug in and use instead of the one that's permanently connected to your computer.
But we're not a police state. Oooooh, no.
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I also intend doing bigger and better things on the internet in '09.
Interesting comments left under the Times article.
BTW, I've got your cold now and missed out on a nice day out. Still - it's back to work tomorrow, hopefully.
Just as I believe digital photos are not admissable in court because they can be tampered with, the same must apply to hard drives if they can be accessed remotely without the owners knowledge or consent.
It'll be interesting to see a test case - information obtained without warrant, which could so easily have been planted. A decent lawyer should be able to rip that to shreds.
Unless they don't bother with all that 'innocent until proven guilty' stuff. Which, increasingly, it seems they won't.