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The ABC (Australia) reports:
A battle is brewing between telecommunications companies and the Federal Government over further national security laws.
The Coalition Government wants to force telcos to do more to protect their networks and infrastructure from attack, and wants to give itself the power to directly intervene in the companies when there is a security risk.
The telcos are worried those powers are too broad, too intrusive and give Government unfettered access to their documents.
Obviously the government wants it both ways: telcos have to be secure from all attacks except "friendly" ones from the spooks in Canberra.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 22 2015, @03:06PM
At first reading, it seems to be a pretty good idea.
BUT - we already know that Australia's government is competing with that of the UK to be the most intrusive government in the world. I'm asking myself, "Would I want the NSA mandating how security is done at MY telco?" Hardly.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday July 23 2015, @12:11AM
Well, AS STATED in the summary, they would only have that power if there were a security issue, so all the telcos need to do is ensure that there aren't ANY security holes, right?
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.