Police accessed BlackBerry messages to thwart planned riots
progress detectives hours before the planned attacks in the capital after having scoured the mobile phones of the detainees
Scotland Yard arrested the planned attacks by demonstrators in London's landmarks through hours before they were to take place after managing to "get" social sites encrypted messaging, which has arisen.
attacks on the Olympics site, the upscale shopping at Oxford Circus and both Westfield shopping centers in the east and west London is drawn through BlackBerry Messenger.
Detectives made the breakthrough hours before the attacks planned after scouring the mobile phones of people who were arrested during the riots. They were given access to family planning messages riots and looting, they jumped to encrypt large BlackBerry Messenger.
In fact, on Monday afternoon, they were able to control the messaging device, and send more to stop attacks on high-level sites in the capital - attacks that have increased the feeling of threat and danger felt by the Londoners.
Tuesday morning, police revealed they had considered changing the messages of social networks, including BlackBerry Messenger and Twitter.
testimony before the parliamentary committee on internal affairs, the actions of the Metropolitan Police, Tim Godwin said police discovered that he had no legal authority to do so: "We opportunity to seek legal authority to turn it off. The legality is questionable, very questionable. "
added that as the social messaging site that is used to plan the riot, which was an "average intelligence" useful to the police who were able to control.
Chiefs of Police on Monday sent officers to prevent planned attacks on the Olympic site in Stratford, East London. Shops in the area was also closed after "intelligence" obtained from social messaging sites, ie, BlackBerry Messenger and Twitter, of conspiracy to riot.
- Godwin found that the police are not "at this point in time" asking the government new powers to close the social networking sites a message during outbreaks of extreme disorder.
- The Guardian revealed Monday that the government had written in the security service MI5 and the center of espionage in the communications center to join the search for email users trace the social unrest and to find how strongly encrypted BlackBerry messaging could be "cracked" in the future, real-time if necessary.
Godwin, who confirmed that apply for the next commissioner of the Met, said: "I think men and women of Met have been timid, a charge that has been stabilized with us . "
Sir Hugh Orde also testified that a President of the Association of Chiefs of Police, who police said had no idea of ??the riot that broke out. "What we have seen basically the same as my estimation, was almost nonexistent before the mind. It was spontaneous and unorganized, "he said.
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