In an attempt to further eradicate the liberties and rights the home office has taken it upon itself to allow the police to hack into your computer without a warrant. Of course this is ok because it is only permitted if someone, somewhere, believes you to be a serious criminal. What if they make a mistake you ask? That doesn’t matter it’s not like they have to tell anyone. And even if you did find out they don’t have to prove that they had real evidence to believe you were a threat – just the fact that they said the evidence existed. And all the abuse prevention is backed up by the strict and beefy “Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act” – the self same act that allows a council use CCTV to see if you really live where you say you do (for the vital purpose of ensuring that you are not swindling the school admissions system you understand - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7341179.stm); check up on where your dog poos (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7369543.stm) or ensure that fishermen are not (shock! horror!) fishing (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7398820.stm). As such regulation by this act fills me with total confidence that the system will not be abused. I fully believe that regulation by this act can hold Big Brother at bay indefinitely.

But I here you say, this involve hacking and that is illegal. Even the state is not above the law. Right you are! However they’ve already thought of that one too – in 1990. They may not be above the law, but they can change the law so that they are above the proletariat. Which they did. So indiscriminate hacking by the state has been legal for 19 years now. Bet you didn’t know that. So what’s changed new? It will become common practice in the UK police force, EU police force will be able to do it to UK citizens with no repercussions, before they could be held liable snooping your private life without a warrant (illegal - even if not under the PC Misuse Act) whereas now information so gather could probably be used in a “fair trial” in a court of law.

Oh, and it all relies on the fact that terrorists, pedophiles etc. will just leave the relevant files easy to find on their computer and not apply any kind of encryption or protection to them whatsoever. Heck, they may as well plan their bombings via MSN.

(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece)

I for one do not welcome our new Orwellian overlords.