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10 Downing Street Hacked by Cops

SUS | 21.01.2007 12:02 | Technology

Police have allegedly hacked into 10 Downing Street computers to get evidence in the Cash for Honours inquiry. It's difficult to know what to make of this being neither a fan of Downing Street or the police.

My first thoughts:

Everyone is vunerable to hacking and police surviellance;

If the police can hack into Downing Street then so can anyone and the
UK government is criminally insecure;

If the police can do this now for this investigation then they could have done it for the Scott Report and the Hutton report and the 'dodgy dossier' which were all more serious crimes that led to mass murders so were all more serious crimes. If evidence recovered from this hack also reveals complicity in those crimes then war crimes trials become a real possibility;

By holding back evidence then Blair has proven himself a criminal even if if is like getting Al Capone on tax evasion.


SUS
- Homepage: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/21/npeers21.xml

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Probably just press hype

21.01.2007 14:20

There's very little substance to this story - it just indicates that they "used computer experts to obtain confidential material" and "accessed computers remotely". The "hack" part appears to have been invented by the journalist - there's no suggestion in the story that the police did anything creative or defeated any security measures.

What actually happened is probably more like: as part of the investigation, they asked somebody to give them something (like the contents of their email archive), and got lucky.

Andrew Suffield
mail e-mail: asuffield@suffields.me.uk

word

21.01.2007 14:54

is a downing street insider gave them passwords.

Nobbler

meeja and computers

21.01.2007 21:36

Never take on trust what the mainstream media says about computers - non-computer-specialist journos are apt to get even the less technical stuff wrong, or (as mentioned by others above) hype it to make the story more exciting.

If you wanna read pretty reliable IT news I recommend
 http://www.theregister.co.uk
These people are UK oriented, normally get the technical stuff right, write about technical things in a way which is interesting even if you don't understand it all and they have a great disrespect for government. I am not connected to them in any way!

bobby

Thanks Bobby

24.01.2007 01:02

I already read 'the Reg'. And I'm bemused by their silence on this story.May be you could ask them to explain their silence on a story that is bread and butter to them ?

SUS