GCHQ and the protection of the UK - the announcement 1 April 2012 of the plan to allow the monitoring of UK citizens Internet activity without a court order.
Penetration analysis - hacking into systems before the hackers do.
This is already big business. Companies, like Finfisher, are offering services to anyone with the money to pay, including regimes such as Egypt's Mubarak and Libya's Gaddafi - not that it did them any good in the long run!
I hope that this doesn't get passed.
ReplyDeleteIf the UK goes for this then it would represent the start of a slippery slope for the rest of the world.