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Title: Dutch government proposes giving itself the power to hack your computer
Post by: dpareja on May 02, 2013, 05:52:48 pm: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/02/netherlands-dutch-police-hack-powers-law.html (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/02/netherlands-dutch-police-hack-powers-law.html)

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The Dutch government has unveiled the draft of a law that would give police investigating online crimes the right to hack into computers in the Netherlands or abroad and install spyware or destroy files.

So... yeah. Supposedly this will require judicial oversight, but I don't imagine that they'll allow civilians equal access to Dutch government computers...
Title: Re: Dutch government proposes giving itself the power to hack your computer
Post by: Sigmaleph on May 02, 2013, 06:31:28 pm: Well, fuck. I guess I'll have to get rid of those compromising pictures of the Queen, then.

I would say something more relevant, but I think "well, fuck" about covers it.
Title: Re: Dutch government proposes giving itself the power to hack your computer
Post by: Art Vandelay on May 02, 2013, 09:11:10 pm: I'd be fine with simply hacking to find certain files (as long as they have a warrant for it). But installing Spyware? That's just going to far.
Title: Re: Dutch government proposes giving itself the power to hack your computer
Post by: Katsuro on May 03, 2013, 06:10:56 am: Quote from: dpareja on May 02, 2013, 05:52:48 pm
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/02/netherlands-dutch-police-hack-powers-law.html (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/02/netherlands-dutch-police-hack-powers-law.html)

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The Dutch government has unveiled the draft of a law that would give police investigating online crimes the right to hack into computers in the Netherlands or abroad and install spyware or destroy files.

Wouldn't the other countries have something to say about that? I can't imagine they'd be amused by this.
Title: Re: Dutch government proposes giving itself the power to hack your computer
Post by: chitoryu12 on May 03, 2013, 11:41:56 pm: Quote from: Katsuro on May 03, 2013, 06:10:56 am
Quote from: dpareja on May 02, 2013, 05:52:48 pm
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/02/netherlands-dutch-police-hack-powers-law.html (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/02/netherlands-dutch-police-hack-powers-law.html)

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The Dutch government has unveiled the draft of a law that would give police investigating online crimes the right to hack into computers in the Netherlands or abroad and install spyware or destroy files.

Wouldn't the other countries have something to say about that? I can't imagine they'd be amused by this.

While it appears to state that they could also do it "abroad", that will never fly. At a minimum, being caught hacking into a foreign computer will cause a political shitstorm. It'll probably end up resulting in legal consequences.
Title: Re: Dutch government proposes giving itself the power to hack your computer
Post by: R. U. Sirius on May 04, 2013, 02:57:30 am: So the Dutch government wants to give itself the power to do what private companies have been doing ever since the Internet became a thing.

*yawn*