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violence, pornography, and rude words for the web generationen-usZ Never talk to the police
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/journal/id/never-talk-to-the-police
<a href=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/227376/mi6-photos-sold-on-ebay.html>This</a> is why talking to the police is a really bad idea, and why I won't do it except to report a crime committed against me or someone very close to me. Even if the gentleman in question had his hardware replaced, he won't have got his data back - and without the data, his computer is useless. He can't even restore from backups, as you can bet they stole those too.<p>And he also now has jackbooted thugs trawling through all his personal information - his email, his online purchases, his porn, everything. These are the same idiots who he already knows sell private information on ebay. Joy!<p>OK, so this almost certainly didn't happen, because it originated in The Sun, but it's so believable and the principle of never talking to the police holds. 2008-10-01T10:17:17Z