According to security experts, the UK's trials to maximise online security may backfire and put the entire country at web-risk.

As a quick reminder, at the moment the UK is trying to come up with ways as to how it could make the online world more secure.

One of the measures the draft Comms document has mentioned is storing email topics, web-activity as well as using "black-boxes" to monitor overseas traffic. Of everyone in the UK, no less.

In addition the Intelligence and Security Committee stated in its report that it thought that cyber attacks could also raise "significant opportunities for our intelligence and security agencies and military which should be exploited in the interests of UK national security."

Security consultant, Neils Groeneveld, was quoted by PCPro.co.uk as saying:

"We are giving the signal to the rest of the world that offensive cyber-espionage or cyber-warfare is fully acceptable, even though we condemn the usage by others such as China."

The security analyst went on to describe that it was fully possible that the cyber criminals could potentially break into vulnerable official systems and launch further attacks from there. This could result in the Security Committee targeting the wrong sources.

SimplifyDigital tends to agree, what hackers can and cannot do is largely a grey area. It is necessary to be careful when dealing with no-gooders on the web. Lest we forget instances such as LulzSec or Anonymous.