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UK Government backs more remote searching of private PCs
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| Liberty director Shami Chakrabati said "These are very intrusive powers – as
| intrusive as someone busting down your door and coming into your home" and
| that Liberty would be seeking to challenge the legal basis of the proposals.
| Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, considered that there were
| benefits to law enforcement, but that "The exercise of such intrusive powers
| raises serious privacy issues. The government must explain how they would
| work in practice and what safeguards will be in place to prevent abuse."
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/121155
Another Reason to Run GNU/Linux...
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| Er, and how are they going to break into my system to install the keylogger
| if they don't know the password? Attachments won't work: I'm generally clever
| enough *not* to open them, and even if I did, they wouldn't do much on a
| GNU/Linux box. And hacking my hard disc through the wireless network? I don't
| think so.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/another-reason-to-run-gnulinux.html
Related:
German government admits it is already conducting online searches
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| Piltz called on the German government to block funding for the
| programming of software used in online searches; she also said it
| was urgent that the government "discontinue these searches until
| the German Supreme Court has reached a ruling on the matter."
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/88895/from/rss09
"Trusted" Computing
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| Do you imagine that any US Linux distributor would say no to the
| US government if they were requested (politely, of course) to add
| a back-door to the binary Linux images shipped as part of their
| products ? Who amongst us actually uses the source code so helpfully
| given to us on the extra CDs to compile our own version ? With
| Windows of course there are already so many back-doors known and
| unknown that the US government might not have even bothered to
| ask Microsoft, they may have just found their own, ready to
| exploit at will. What about Intel or AMD and the microcode on
| the processor itself ?
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http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/164
Data Protection Commissioner criticizes search of private PCs online
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| "In the case of a search via the Internet a police officer covertly,
| without the person knowing about it, accesses a person's computer."
| During such an operation he or she might copy data and obtain all
| kinds of personal documents; the police officer was acting as a "state
| hacker," so to speak. Mr. Schaar observed. "Such an approach is in
| conflict with the legal obligation to protect the core of
| individuals' privacy," Mr. Schaar stated emphatically.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82529/from/rss09
James Allchin
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| In relation to the issue of sharing technical API and protocol
| information used throughout Microsoft products, which the
| states were seeking, Allchin alleged that releasing this
| information would increase the security risk to consumers.
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| "It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is
| also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into
| computing networks. Computers, including many running Windows
| operating systems, are used throughout the United States
| Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United
| States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
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| In May 2004, Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to
| investigate Burst.com's claim that, in 2000, Allchin ordered
| Microsoft employees to destroy email after 30 days and not to
| archive their email, suggesting that this deletion policy
| might be an effort to eliminate material that would later be
| damaging in court. This case was settled out of court in March
| 2005, with Microsoft agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million
| for nonexclusive rights to Burst.com's media player software.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
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