George Brandis, Australia's Attorney General, is inviting submissions on the possible expansion of access to metadata retained under Australia's telco metadata retention laws. Under existing law, telcos are required to retain metadata for two years, which may be used for law enforcement and national security purposes.
However, the committee also indicated that it was aware of the potential for unintended consequences resulting from a prohibition on courts authorising access to data retained under the scheme and recommended that the Minister for Communications and the Attorney-General review this measure.
Rupert's empire published on this last year, the ABC was late to the party with a story on January 5. I wonder if the AG and the communications minster are aware of the potential for unintended consequences resulting from civil access to this metadata.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @06:59AM
Mesh netwoks. End2endb cyncryption. Wifi enabled electric cars self dr8vinvg around. Cant shtop teh signals!@@!!
World domination down under!!1!
Don be uzing internets. Makeus a geek net for geeeeks.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:04AM
Traveling in a fried-out Kombi
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said
Do you come from mesh net down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
And he said
I come from mesh net down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Yeah
Lyin' in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the net of plenty?"
And he said
Do you come from mesh net down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Living in mesh net down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Living in mesh net down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Living in mesh net down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Living in mesh net down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:08AM
Will the mesh net have pirated music for my lyrics?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:11AM
Sure thing mesh buddy! Let me just plug in the internet gateway. oh fuck
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:13AM
"Let's replace the internet!" always fails, as soon as someone wants something from the internet, mate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:26AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:15AM
Just get a vpn like everyone else and poison the well with a random web crawler when you are not using your pc
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:21AM
Great idea! Where will your unencrypted vpn endpoint be? A colocation facility which is already under government surveillance?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:35AM
And it'll just land you for enhanced interrogation
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:37AM
Can I make toilet wine between beatings?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Friday January 06 2017, @08:36AM
I find laws like this to be just astounding invasions of privacy. This metadata represents your movement in cyberspace. Imagine requiring every citizen to wear a tracker that records all of their physical movements, and store this for future use "just in case".
Sure, it's a handy investigative tool, but at what price in privacy and individual freedom? Moreover, what "crimes" will be discovered that will put innocent people in jail? Your WLAN was hacked in a drive-by incident, and used for something illegal? Prove it wasn't you!
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by zeigerpuppy on Friday January 06 2017, @10:06AM
It's called a mobile phone and you probably already carry one friend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @02:02AM
No, I don't. Fuck off. Mobile phones are also voluntary.