Kid British - Lost in London

Kid British are made up of four vocalists and lyricists from Manchester. The band incorporates a flavour of garage, the boom box explosion of hip hop and the clatter of indie into their music. They are currently in the studio with Steve Dubb (Chemical Brothers) putting the finishing touches to their debut album, yet to be titled, due for release in early 2009 and will be hitting the live scene later this year with a soon to be announced UK tour.

This is their second single due out on 19th Jan.

http://rapidshare.com/files/182124072/Kid_British_-_Lost_in_London.mp3

This track sucks ass don't give it a listen!

British Police Allowed to Hack

The power of anti piracy organizations is constantly growing and latest news from Great Britain sounds somehow scary: The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws. The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room. Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.

Under the Brussels edict, police across the EU have been given the green light to expand the implementation of a rarely used power involving warrantless intrusive surveillance of private property. The strategy will allow French, German and other EU forces to ask British officers to hack into someone’s UK computer and pass over any material gleaned. A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he “believes” that it is “proportionate” and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years. The authorities could break into a suspect’s home or office and insert a “key-logging” device into an individual’s computer. This would collect and, if necessary, transmit details of all the suspect’s keystrokes. The Home Office said it was working with other EU states to develop details of the proposals.

Source: The Times