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UK police seek powers to attack web sites

Chris | 26.07.2005 12:06 | Indymedia | Repression | Technology | Sheffield

UK Police chiefs have asked the government to allow them to attack terrorist web sites.

According to and article on silicon.com:

"Chief UK police officers are asking the government for new powers that would allow them to attack terrorist websites."

"The list of recommendations does not detail how police would attack websites but in many cases remotely disabling a web server involves a denial of service attack (i.e. sending floods of data to overwhelm it)."

Anti-terror legislation has been used against Indymedia:  http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Indymedia/ ...this has scary implications...

More on this on spy.org.uk:

 http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/archives/2005/07/association_of.html

Also saw this on silicon.com:

"A UK man has been fined £500 and sentenced to 12 months' conditional discharge for hijacking a wireless broadband connection."

"Police sources said Straszkiewicz was caught standing outside a building in a residential area holding a wireless-enabled laptop."

 http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39150672,00.htm

Chris

Comments

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  1. Who is the terrorist? Matter of opinion — Kurt Brown, AKA Saint Ram Bone
  2. unnecessary — enough already
  3. photos Doctored + Censorship — Tina
  4. blimey — magoo
  5. moving — Bill Posters
  6. such a delightful attitude — jackslucid
  7. Aye, Right — Paranoid Pete