EU Police learning hacking tricks. They are about to “Remote search” your PCs.
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Re: EU Police learning hacking tricks. They are about to “Remote search” your PCs.
#2Where are the actual facts here?
It could be:
a) hardcore hacking attempts trying to remotely gain access.
b) Emailing a suspect an attachment containing a keylogger etc
c) Port scanning, checking for public shared folders (p2p included), and scanning them.
It sounds likely that they'll just email you over some attachment/link to website/exploit/etc and hope you bite which is hardly a threat to anyone who has a clue.
Also calling that "remotely access and monitor any PC without warrant.", or "hacking" is an extremely big stretch, but then it's all about what sells newspapers...
Re: EU Police learning hacking tricks. They are about to “Remote search” your PCs.
#3Ideological concerns aside, I don't really see that much of a problem in law enforcement hacking personal computers. For one thing, it just might stimulate the crypto and computer security industries. For another, there shouldn't be anything to hide, right? I mean, if they start cracking down on pirated software and whatever, that might be a little bit of an issue...
...but not if you don't pirate. ;)
Re: EU Police learning hacking tricks. They are about to “Remote search” your PCs.
#4Ideological concerns aside, I don't really see that much of a problem in law enforcement hacking personal computers. For one thing, it just might stimulate the crypto and computer security industries. For another, there shouldn't be anything to hide, right? I mean, if they start cracking down on pirated software and whatever, that might be a little bit of an issue... ...but not if you don't pirate. ;)
One problem with any crypto technique is that you can never know for certain that it hasn't already been broken, you just know about vulnerabilities that have been disclosed.
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#6Authorities could break into PCs
Into the PCs they CAN break ;)
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#7They are about to “Remote search” your PCs.
Well, actually, they are about to "Remote search" someone else's PCs; not mine.
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#8Does anyone have any decent reference to this? All I can find is articles from blogs which are not quoting any official source on this matter. There has to be some official paper to read somewhere...
Re: EU Police learning hacking tricks. They are about to “Remote search” your PCs.
#9Where are the actual facts here? It could be: a) hardcore hacking attempts trying to remotely gain access. b) Emailing a suspect an attachment containing a keylogger etc c) Port scanning, checking for public shared folders (p2p included), and scanning them. Or any number of other things. So far the articles on this news story are just spreading FUD about, but it seems pretty likely it's b) and c) - big deal. It sound…
Also calling that "remotely access and monitor any PC without warrant.", or "hacking" is an extremely big stretch, but then it's all about what sells newspapers...
Well, this is definitely criminal behavior when spammers do it. I don't see how it would be any less criminal when done by the police. If they can get a warrant, it would be a lot easier to just break down your door and take your machine. (Of course, your crypto keys won't be in memory then, which could be a problem for them.)
Anyway, get some judicial oversight, and then I don't care. If you don't have a warrant, though, this is extremely unethical. What is the point of having a legal system if it stoops to the low level of the common scammer?
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#10Does anyone have any decent reference to this? All I can find is articles from blogs which are not quoting any official source on this matter. There has to be some official paper to read somewhere...
I’ll just reply myself, maybe I’m not the only one having missed the original story (dates back to November 27 2008): http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/0...