British Intelligence and Police Look To Hack Brit PC's ....

Not mine they won't, and hopefully yours either. They can easily be thwarted by using diligent security efforts like simple firewalls, which are always the best place to start, and not just the basic windows or Mac versions that come with your computer. Nor even simply your software doorways like Zone Alarms or Symantec's offerings, although both are far better than nothing. However when coupled with a hardware version you'll be safe from police and hackers alike as long as you stay away from strange emails, porn websites and nefarious looking downloads promising free shi^ that never materialize as promised. Nothing in this life is free but Jesus, remember that and you'll be fine.

You can also password protect your important files or even go a step further which I've done and use biometrics for access to any important information whatsoever on your PC including simply turning the thing off and on, particularly if sharing a pc with family members or roommates. Using some safe anonymizers can hide most of your PC information transmitted back and forth with servers while surfing the net although your IP address is almost always detectable (though some software claims to change and hide this)and usually enough for the authorities to find the neighborhood in which your PC resides without court orders, although the program being discussed in the article below even circumvents those. Be careful as anonymizers can steal and sell your information too while professing to be your friend and ally. You can check your computers security levels at various places, like Shields up here, or Audit My PC here, Symantec here. All three are free.

Basically if they really want to they can simply break your doors down and physically take the things right our of our homes if they really feel like it, so the best advice is to stay off their radar screens entirely by trying not to engage in nefarious and obviously illegal activities while computing, and then the authorities really have no reason nor need to knock on or down your doors virtually or physically.

Police look to hack citizens' home PCs:

World NetDaily: Police and state intelligence agencies from several countries may soon be working together to secretly hack into private citizens personal computers without their knowledge and without a warrant.

According to a London Times report, the police hacking process, called "remote searching," enables law enforcement to gather information from e-mails, instant messages and Web browsers, even while hundreds of miles away.

Furthermore, the Times reports, a new edict by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels has paved the way for international law enforcement agencies to begin remote searching and sharing the information with each other. According to the Times, the United Kingdom's Home Office, the nation's lead government department for immigration, drugs and counter-terrorism enforcement, has already quietly adopted a plan that would enable French, German and other European Union police forces to request remote searching be done on UK citizens' computers.

The Home Office's plan has drawn immediate protest.

"These are very intrusive powers – as intrusive as someone busting down your door and coming into your home," said Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, a British civil liberties and human rights group.

"The public will want this to be controlled by new legislation and judicial authorization," Chakrabarti told the Times. "Without those safeguards it's a devastating blow to any notion of personal privacy."(Story continues )

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