Looming online surveillance in Aus (TIA amendment)

[Rabelais]

Upcoming reforms to the TIA act.

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2009 - Network Protection

At the moment, we are protected by the following:

Prohibition on Interception of Telecommunications

Section 7 of the TIA Act states:

( 1 ) A person shall not:

( A ) intercept;

( B ) authorize, suffer or permit another person to intercept; or

( C ) do any act or thing that will enable him or her or another person to intercept;

a communication passing over a telecommunications system.

A person who contravenes subsection 7(1) is guilty of an offence punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a period not exceeding 2 years (s105). Note, however, that limited exceptions to the s7(1) prohibition are specified in other subsections of s7. These include interception under an interception warrant.

Telecommunications Interception & Access Laws

If supreme leader Krudd gets his way, expect this to change. Our online communications will be able to be monitored without warrant.

Consider this another example of corporate interests moving into public policy. It also seems that network administrators will have a duty to report anything illegal or suspicious they come across.

Now, where is my tin foil hat.

[Neoshaman]

Upcoming reforms to the TIA act.

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2009 - Network Protection

At the moment, we are protected by the following:

If supreme leader Krudd gets his way, expect this to change. Our online communications will be able to be monitored without warrant.

Consider this another example of corporate interests moving into public policy. It also seems that network administrators will have a duty to report anything illegal or suspicious they come across.

Now, where is my tin foil hat.

Yes but this is Australia and of course everyone will sit on their arse and do nothing , cause it someone elses problem ..guess the vast majority of our population like getting fucked over by our giovernmernt at one point the labour party was meant to represent the small guy , the workers , now the only thing they seem intrested in is gaining more and more control over the lives of the people they once supposedly helped

[Yawning Man]

This is really fucked. Angry and disgusted on so many levels.

[hutch]

I am a bit confused over what they mean by network. I understand how it relates in a work environment as I have run a large business and I know what the risks are . But, are they saying (I know I'm DUMB) that at home, on my own computer, someone, somewhere else will have the right to intercept my private messages? Just because I may have used the word "drug" !!!!!! And they will then have a responsability to report me to the authorities?

Can't be right can it?

The future really frightens me! I want to get off now, thanks for the ride but it's now just making me sick.

[ThunderIdeal]

i know government behaviour makes a cynic out of everyone but nothing has happened yet, has it?

[Hendry]

“A BILL of rights would erode Australia's democracy, diminish the reputation and accountability of Parliament, politicise the judiciary and represent the ''final triumph of elitism in Australian politics''

- John Howard ( This would be hillarious if it wasn’t so scary. What a wanker!)

It’s a shame there don't sem to be many politicians in Australia who value a law establishing rights for Australians nor does there seem to be any objections raised when the government blatantly pisses on these rights (if said rights actually exist?) with their police state/Surveillance/Snifferdog/Censorship bullshit laws enacted by the “But think of the children” crowd who wish to ban everything in Australia except poker machines.

You know what they say If you keep on sucking ass………your gonna choke on shit!

F**k ‘em

While it is impossible to be completely anonymous online or secure your computer short of not using the internet/ blowing up your hard drive. There are a few things to prevent the local geek working at your ISP from viewing the tranny porn that you might be downloading ? ; )

Making your internet communications more private has nothing to do with whether or not you’re doing anything frowned upon by the law enforcement community..it’s the principle f**k the police state.

This is an expensive but relativley comprehensive Virtual privacy network Xerobank I normally use it but the bastards at optus slowed down my internets to 100kbps and charged me $300 bucks for exceeding 20 gb. I upgraded to the better plan but it will change next billing period. So my internet is moving at a snails pace.What a pain in the ass lol

This free open source GnuPG program is good for e-mail.

GnuPG

Short of pissing off the CIA it would be safe to assume unless someone was able to guess your password,extract it out of you or your computer they might run into some problems trying to read your private e-mails.

“Perhaps you think your E-mail is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? You must be a subversive or a drug dealer if you hide your mail inside envelopes. Or maybe a paranoid nut. Do law-abiding citizens have any need to encrypt their E-mail?

What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If some brave soul tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their E-mail, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their E-mail privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity.”

- Phil Zimmerman PGP inventor

[Rabelais]

Hey, some good news.

ISPs force rewrite of law

[hutch]

Hey, some good news.

ISPs force rewrite of law

I thought common sense would have to prevail in the end but it just highlights to me how vigilant people should be.

[Eth_Head]

Yeah lucky we have people like Geordie Guy and the EFA.

They are currently fighting the Internet Censorship proposal. I recommend you help them anyway you can.

[mountainmaniac]

Yeah lucky we have people like Geordie Guy and the EFA.

They are currently fighting the Internet Censorship proposal. I recommend you help them anyway you can.

[mountainmaniac]

Come on are people so naive as to think we are not monitored at all? FFS people! What do you think "PINE GAP" is used for.Also all cables into the USA are split and diverted by the N.C.A. your call is them monitored if certain key words are used.This goes for Australia as well.To think for one minute that we are not is naive to say the least.

Also food for thought are the F.E.M.A.Camps ( Federal Emergency Management Agency ) built and are being built in the U.S.A.Razor wire around them,gaurd Towers,security Cams all over and what suspiciously looks to be Gas Chambers and near buy, millions of plastic coffins being stock piled. Like to tell me W.T.F is going on?

Go to You Tube and Type in FEMA.

And the truth behind the Copenhagen treaty is for a "New World Government" not Global warming.Listen very carefully to the link below.

http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_n...iew&id=4998

[hutch]

Come on are people so naive as to think we are not monitored at all? FFS people! What do you think "PINE GAP" is used for.Also all cables into the USA are split and diverted by the N.C.A. your call is them monitored if certain key words are used.This goes for Australia as well.To think for one minute that we are not is naive to say the least.

Also food for thought are the F.E.M.A.Camps ( Federal Emergency Management Agency ) built and are being built in the U.S.A.Razor wire around them,gaurd Towers,security Cams all over and what suspiciously looks to be Gas Chambers and near buy, millions of plastic coffins being stock piled. Like to tell me W.T.F is going on?

Go to You Tube and Type in FEMA.

And the truth behind the Copenhagen treaty is for a "New World Government" not Global warming.Listen very carefully to the link below.

http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_n...iew&id=4998

You start off there a little far fetched mate but your link to Allan Jones is a good one and one everybody should listen to it.

Save our Country.....

Hutch

[mountainmaniac]

You start off there a little far fetched mate but your link to Allan Jones is a good one and one everybody should listen to it.

Save our Country.....

Hutch

[mountainmaniac]

About phones being Tapped ,IE cables being split, Was In a Documentary on the A.B.C few Months back and produced a lot of evidence to back it up.Was a rather hard hitting and very informative program.

This was all as a result of 9-11, with laws being changed under the disguise of "Anti Terror Laws" Americans can have their library cards accessed with out warrant in order to ascertain their political/social views.And was also reveled in the program about "Key Words" being used in electronic communication that would have your phone conversation and e-mail diverted for monitoring.

As for "Pine Gap" It has always been strongly believed to be a base for monitoring calls. The base is American owned and Guarded.

In the program,the people interviewed (Anonymously in most cases) were ex tel-co workers who did the installation work on the diverted cables and secondary exchanges,& Government Agents.

Please do your home work before calling it Far fetched.