New powers for police to hack your PC

[ratewhore]

How does this affect the chain of evidence? If they put something on your PC cannot you then claim that all evidence they find is tainted? Sounds well dodgy to me.

You can claim that but you will need forensic evidence to prove it.

I can provide said evidence for a price if anyone needs it (assuming the evidence is there of course).

Incidentally, I own a Mac. Should I be worried that I am a wierdo?

[pmeswani]

Incidentally, I own a Mac. Should I be worried that I am a wierdo?

I thought you being weird was a given.

[ratewhore]

I thought you being weird was a given.

I've been insulted on CUK. I feel like I've arrived...

[pmeswani]

I've been insulted on CUK. I feel like I've arrived...

No doubt I'll be on your hit / hate list. And I'm sure I'm not the first or last to insult you on CUK.

[Doggy Styles]

Not necessarily true. The police have developers in-house and will inevitably work with the Antivirus and Spyware companies to ensure that their code is not in their database as a virus.

Do you think this why the latest version of McAfee says it cannot install until I remove Spybot and another "independent" anti-spyware package?

If true, antivirus packages that allow this is like having corrupt policemen.

It all sounded a bit suspicious, so I didn't install it in the end. I like my anti-spyware.

[minestrone]

Not necessarily true. The police have developers in-house and will inevitably work with the Antivirus and Spyware companies to ensure that their code is not in their database as a virus.

Believe me, they are all bloody useless.

Anyway with a hardware firewall, a software firewall, usernames and good passwords on an updated clean system, they aint getting anywhere.

Not that I have anything to hide though

[pmeswani]

Do you think this why the latest version of McAfee says it cannot install until I remove Spybot and another "independent" anti-spyware package?

If true, antivirus packages that allow this is like having corrupt policemen.

It all sounded a bit suspicious, so I didn't install it in the end. I like my anti-spyware.

Not quite what I said. What McAfee do (and TrendMicro) to 3rd party Antispyware products is their perogatives. I moved to Kaspersky from TrendMicro (and not moved to McAfee as it is carpe) because Kaspersky is a better rated product. If a bill is passed through parliment, then there is nothing corrupt about getting some viruses whitelisted.

[pmeswani]

Believe me, they are all bloody useless.

Anyway with a hardware firewall, a software firewall, usernames and good passwords on an updated clean system, they aint getting anywhere.

Not that I have anything to hide though

If you got the money to get a good hardware firewall that does virus scanning, then good on ya. I don't have anything to hide, but there again, I wouldn't install a piece of software that I wouldn't trust. A good password on Microsoft requires you to not use the built in hashing used by Microsoft. You would need some better way of encrypting and hashing the password file to prevent anyone from guessing the password. If I remember when I get home, I will post a link to a piece of software that I use as part of my Forensics course that would reveal your good / strong password for you.

[Purple Dalek]

Not necessarily true. The police have developers in-house and will inevitably work with the Antivirus and Spyware companies to ensure that their code is not in their database as a virus.

And as soon as they do that the virus writers will look at the signature and make theirs do the same. As has been found in America.

[pmeswani]

And as soon as they do that the virus writers will look at the signature and make theirs do the same. As has been found in America.

Possibly true. But I wonder if the Police would be able to sue for breach of copyright?