Incident one:

A woman who's pc was compromised and its data held ransom tried to go to the authorities but all she got was a shrug from the local bobbies.

Basically she was told that since it did not involve international crime there is nothing they can do. Evidently the standard to meet the criteria for investigation is that the perpetrator must also be involved in large-scale drug dealing or terrorism.

What does all this say? At least for now, or at least in Manchester, it's open season and the UK is full of stuffed turkeys, hackers have the shotguns at the ready.

If you live in the UK and feel you are a victim of cyber crime you are directed to visit http://www.nhtcu.org ( nhtcu ) where it states: "the NHTCU is no longer providing individual responses to enquiries either via this web site or direct email contacts. If you are a member of the public wishing to report a crime or criminal attempt, please contact your local police force within your country of residence."

Incident two:

A proposed change in the UK Computer Misuse Act wants to outlaw "hacking tools", specifically: "making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in computer misuse offences".

It reads:

"A person is guilty of an offence if he makes, adapts, supplies or offers to supply any article --

(a) intending it to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under section 1 or 3 [of the Computer Misuse Act];

or

(b) believing that it is likely to be so used."

evidently all browsers will now be illegal to posses or use in the UK, as you can perform SQL injection attacks and directory transversals via ../../

... what the **UK ?

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