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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 arslan on Thursday July 23 2015, @04:12AM
In a sense. They are losing the battle though because the Government essentially has a bottomless pocket. As an example, the government has been trying to get telcos to be non-neutral and apply filtering/censorship. They've been unsuccessful in the past, but the recent round they've been able to get the bill passed.
There's resistance, so in that it is different. But in reality, it is moot as the government eventually ends up getting what it wants which is state control. Democracy has a bitter taste nowadays, the devil sure knows how to embrace and corrupt from the inside.