UK government asks: How's our hacking?

We know that the NSA likes taking unsolicited action inside the computers of others. We know the FBI is also very much into hacking

Now, the UK government is telling the world that its spies and cops are hackers too — and has asked the public what they think about it

In a new unprecedented document released on Friday, the UK government released the guidelines and rules that all British spy and law enforcement agencies have to follow in their "equipment interference" activities.

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The document never calls it hacking, but "interference activities" is a euphemism for getting into computers, phones and other devices, activities that intelligence agencies also call Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) Read more...

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