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A recent alleged Islamic terrorist plot in Melbourne has prompted fresh calls from Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to endorse the Assistance and Access Bill, proposed in August 2018, which may help government agencies access user data on computers and mobile devices.
Mr. Dutton believes that the planned attack involving Hanifi Halis, Ertunc Eriklioglu, and Samed Eriklioglu may have been successful if the alleged terrorists had solely used encrypted communications for planning. Mr. Dutton described the ease at which criminals and potential terrorists could communicate as an "unacceptable risk". According to police, counter-terrorism agents have foiled 15 attempted attacks since 2014, four of which have been described as "major".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Blymie on Sunday November 25 2018, @08:50AM (4 children)
Thing is, people are often influenced by the media.
Ever see those movies, where they get a hold of someone's cell phone, and solve the whole mystery from it? Or, if they don't get the phone, and some secret code on it, the world will end?
Yeah. That's what's in their mind.
In reality, it's typically not the case. Anyone dumbass enough to be part of a modern terrorist group, that does such things, would likely not be following doctrine.
(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Sunday November 25 2018, @10:03AM (1 child)
I used to work in the same office as a woman who was convinced that everything on CSI was stuff that cops routinely did. Everything from 'enhance the photo to see fingerprints', 'DNA says this guy is 6'2" and has a big nose', to 'paint chips that were from a can of paint sold by Fred at Home Depot on the 12th of june to a bald guy wearing leather-soled shoes'.
She really believed the cops could and did do that stuff.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 26 2018, @01:41PM
The sort of women who watch cop dramas, legal dramas, or medical dramas think exactly like that. They are just the late night replacement for the soaps the majority of women watched in decades past (and a dwindling number of housewives still watch today.) The scariest part is quite a lot of them have degrees or some level of intelligence, but either due to naivety or some fantasy about the competence of hollywood, assume that they actually do vet all their plots rather than make up something hokey that fills the void, not unlike the void they are filling in their lives with the shows in the first place.
(Score: 4, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Sunday November 25 2018, @10:18AM (1 child)
Bashing unrealistic portrayals in movies is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Cops think and do a lot of stupid crap. The kind of guy who lusts to be a cop because he might get to shoot someone, the racist and sexist pigs and power trippers and brownshirt wannabes who want the power to harass ordinary citizens, the sort who construes the most innocent of actions into big crimes-- police departments have a hell of a time keeping bozos like that off the force, or containing their ugly agenda when they do make it on. Incredibly, some cities have this idea that a cop shouldn't be smart, and will reject applicants for being too smart. Dummies with guns and badges is a recipe for embarrassment and farce at the least, and tragedy and disaster at the worst.
Australia has been in the news a lot lately over their stupid handling of technological matters. This latest demand is merely par for the course. Perhaps Queensland is one of those jurisdictions that doesn't want their cops to be too smart.
(Score: 3, Informative) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday November 26 2018, @03:29AM
That's grossly unfair!!!
Back in Joh's [wikipedia.org] day they were widely considered to be the best that money could buy! [wikipedia.org]
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.