Australian Police State Cranks Up

[K. Darien Freeheart]

Police in australia are looking at a new software tool that will allow them to pop in a Linux LiveCD, scan your hard drive and make copies of anything that the software picks up. In Australia, such "evidence" would be admissible in court.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/05/smut_tests_for_pcs/

[error]

Governments the world over are going to be drooling over this.

[K. Darien Freeheart]

Governments the world over are going to be drooling over this.

Exactly why I posted it. These things always spread.

[penguins4me]

One quick-and-dirty way to defeat this sort of thing is to use data encryption.

For Windows users, TrueCrypt is one such easy-to-use method to use towards this end, and IIRC, the latest version allows full-disk encryption.

http://www.truecrypt.org

[kola]

i had a cool dream.

its a little device, the size of a cell phone. when i pushed the button and pointed at Officer Douchebag who pulled me over, it erased his memory of 30 minutes prior..his eyes glazed over, I said "thank you sir, have a nice day.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I'm an eighth Aussie and I'm ashamed of that Fatherland, too!