Well, where exactly are you safe? What a boring life that would be. You need a little bit of danger sometimes, just to keep you on your toes 
General / Off-Topic Are you safe on the Internet?
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Game of Thrones! (?)
The only "safe" thing on the internet is a thing, wrapped up in tinfoil, kept in a lead-lined safe, that has no connections, no circuitry, no power, would do nothing even if were capable of being powered on, no intrinsic, informational, recreational or collectible value, that nobody would ever want, or want someone else to not have it.
Mouldy potatos are quite safe.
Mouldy potatos are quite safe.
Only with a warrant.
It does not affect or ammend the Data Protection Act 1998 in any way.
Before you find anything like this on my HDD, you have to work through tons and tons of pornography. Good luck with that.
Before you find anything like this on my HDD, you have to work through tons and tons of pornography. Good luck with that.
no darling honestly, its purely a security measure, i only have this vast collection of pornography on my laptop to safeguard those wonderful pictures of you in your bikini, you know.. the ones with that cheeky grin..
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Not just the police. Even councils can get access.
Funnily (thankfully) enough this got scuppered due to a recent EU ruling.
https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-poli...s-law-missing-draft-communications-data-code/
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Edit: Should have read a bit further and I would have seen this was partly addressed already.
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Just to clarify, the Police don't make laws, they just enforce them. Even so, they spend a lot of money and resources on ethics, practically the entire Home Office is about doing things ethically correct, ethics is important to every organisation, both external and internal.
Without ethics, an organisation just falls apart. The police, Home Office, the government and parliament are all human beings, just like any other organisation. Any law they pass applies to them as well, and if they give Police the right to search people's Internet history (for instance) they are also giving permission to have their own Internet history searched.
That pedophile that go away on a technicality, because they couldn't get his Facebook messages as proof and view his history to see that he'd be searching for children. That stalker that murdered someone, but got away because the Police couldn't see his history for proof that he'd be Internet stalking the victim.
That's the kind of thing they want to use it for, not to waste time looking through your private p**n collection or to see what you've got in your private Amazon wishlist, or whatever.
Without ethics, an organisation just falls apart. The police, Home Office, the government and parliament are all human beings, just like any other organisation. Any law they pass applies to them as well, and if they give Police the right to search people's Internet history (for instance) they are also giving permission to have their own Internet history searched.
That pedophile that go away on a technicality, because they couldn't get his Facebook messages as proof and view his history to see that he'd be searching for children. That stalker that murdered someone, but got away because the Police couldn't see his history for proof that he'd be Internet stalking the victim.
That's the kind of thing they want to use it for, not to waste time looking through your private p**n collection or to see what you've got in your private Amazon wishlist, or whatever.
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Well implemented and wisely used encryption can stop pretty much anyone.
What they intend to use it for and how it will be used in practice are often very different things.
The average Joe is completely clueless when it comes to computer security and sadly doesn't care either.
For too many, ignorance is bliss.
Internet security is a serious and important topic. However I could not help but think of this picture when I saw the title of this post:
