The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room.Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I suspect that electronic property such as email and chat logs will be the historical debate of our time. However, I do not think it will be resolved favorably.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Bookmarking for further investigation
January 7th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Greetings Alexander
I find your blog to be very entertaining. I notice that you have a certain political leaning of which I am most interested in. I look forward to discussing your politics with you in a more intimate setting.
Be seeing you
Cordially
Echelon
January 7th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I don’t think emails and chat logs will ever be seen as electronic property; they might be filed under the general protection of privacy rights, but we’ll see. It seems inevitable that someone will eventually consolidate authority over the internet. Perhaps another branch of the FCC? I can foresee this under Obama. If the economy doesn’t pick up, he, like FDR, will find numerous “economic” excuses to take over whatever he pleases.
BTW, when that happens, this blog will be first to go.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:28 am
This is a lie.
January 8th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
All your conversations are belong to us.