BBC 'vague' reporting again!

[Kevin Townsend]

The naivety never ceases to amaze me - though I'm never sure whether it's
theirs or mine. Reminds me of a conference a while back. One speaker was a
senior office from the West Midlands. He described a project they had - to
develop a police security scanner on a stick. The idea was that the public
would invite their friendly neighbourhood crime prevention officer into
their homes to insert the stick and scan their home computer.

I suggested that given the reputation of the police, might it not be
better to promote this service via an independent third party. Some chap
two rows behind me leapt to his feet (figuratively) and tore me off a
strip (actually) for suggesting that the police had anything but an
immaculate reputation. He for one would be delighted to invite the police
to check his own home computer.

I later learned he was with SOCA.


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> Just spotted this item on the BBC news -
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7758127.stm where they claim "Remote
> searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle
> hi-tech crime."
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> They don't state how these 'remote searches' will work, but either they're
> assuming Windows has some backdoor in it, people are too stupid to
> configure an effective firewall, the BBC don't understand the technology
> involved or I've misread something in the story. :-)
>
> Paul
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