[Gllug] Police want new powers

[SteveC]

* @ 22/07/05 11:44:42 AM rich at annexia.org wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1533917,00.html
> 
> Senior officers also want powers to attack and close down websites,
> and a new criminal offence of using the internet to prepare acts of
> terrorism, to "suppress inappropriate internet usage".
> 
> They also want to make it a criminal offence for suspects to refuse to
> cooperate in giving the police full access to computer files by
> refusing to disclose their encryption keys.

It already is a criminal offence, although IIRC some SI's still have to
go through.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm

Vote Labour, people.

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/
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