Australia Sucks!

Phreaddee

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*sigh* at least you guys in america had some people kick up a stink about SOPA. Here is Australia our stupid government has just passed one of the dumbest (and incredibly invasive) bills ever, not even a peep out of anyone!

Under the guise of "Cybercrime" every (read that again EVERY) australian will now have every single key stroke done on the internet tracked and stored in data farms for up to two years...which the police have complete powers to access (on the flimsiest evidence they can get) any time they want, and can charge you with anything they want.

The Greens' amendments were voted against. These included concerns that the information shared could result in the death penalty overseas, even though Australia does not support capital punishment, and that the Bill should be clearer to prevent this. Greens spokesperson Scott Ludlam also said in the Senate today that it was deeply concerning that countries with less strict privacy legislation than Australia could request personal information on Australians under investigation, and that the amendments had no language to refuse such a request.
"Given the medium that we now operate in, privacy protections can be absolutely rock-solid in Australia, but if we are sharing data — intimate personal details of people's lives — with law enforcement and intelligence agencies in foreign jurisdictions with lower standards of privacy protection that we have in Australia, and that material leaks, then the privacy protections that they're afforded in Australia is worthless, because that information can be back in Australia at the speed of light."


so F**K YOU Nicola Roxon, I hope you stuff up somewhere along the line and get your data audited and get the death penalty. that would be justice.

(and yes read this, track it, and store it for 2 years, YOU are a dumb bitch!)
and Stephen Conroy I'm watching you too.

and for anyone who wants to be as outraged as I am,
http://www.zdnet.com/au/cybercrime-bill-passes-senate-set-to-become-law-7000002971/

grrrrrrr! !@#$@!#$@!#%$@!$%^^&%#^&!$&%* !!!!
 
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chrishirst

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Sounds like time for a VPN. :)

https://5vpn.net/enarticle/anonymous-vpn/

I actually pay for have a VPN constantly available just in case I need to search from a different country rather than being "Internet invisible" and I have a fixed IP from my ISP, so with a VPN available I can "attack" my own servers without locking my self out.


The ISPs should tell them what AOL said when this was being discussed a few years ago by the European Parliament over storing emails and search data.

They simply stated that "There isn't enough computer storage on the Planet to hold seven days of our user data, never mind three months"
 

Phreaddee

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and then a hacker cracks into the data farm.
great way to ruin an entire digital economy in one fell swoop.
 

ronaldroe

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This is why the conservatives and libertarians in the US fight so hard against the expansion of government. If we don't, we end up with laws like these. I know it seems mean spirited or uncaring to fight against certain issues from the outside, but so much more goes into those bills than just the original issue, and it generally amounts to growing government.

Phreadee, any talk of taking it through the judicial system or repealing it (if that's even possible)?
 

Phreaddee

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I very much doubt it ronald. sneakily it was disguised under smoke and mirrors and our useless opposition harping on about "the carbon tax and mining tax will ruin our country" so much frigging hot air coming out of his mouth that the announcement wasn't even newsworthy, only found out via the 24hr news channel. its also packaged in so much dry legalese that no one save those that really give a rats (ie our industry) had the patience to wade through the information. its really sad.

and of course using nice big keywords like "piracy", "paedophilia" and "cybercrime" 99% of the population are brainwashed into believing it is actually good policy (which it isnt) on the one hand they are being progressive and rolling out the National Broadband Network, and on the other its this...the mind boggles!

it was apparently based on a european model, anyone care to shed any light on this sort of policy in Europe? (Chris?) I am unfamiliar with this model, and i noticed you touched on it (slightly) in your post.
 
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chrishirst

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At the moment in the UK there has to be a court order obtained to access any individual's methods of communications, after demonstrating and proving to the judiciary that there is a need for such measure to be taken against that individual. Not that it seems to make any difference to some newspapers and journalists of course.

The last attempt to implement such a law was in 2008 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/31/privacy-civil-liberties) but was dropped after a public outcry on civil liberties and "human rights".

Also under EU data protection rules, there are statutory limits on what data can be retained electronically and how long it can be kept for, something that Google fell foul of also in 2008, and more recently with their data collection during their "Street mapping" world tour.

nice big keywords like "piracy", "paedophilia" and "cybercrime"
It's the "To get the right answers, you have to ask the right questions" psychology.

Ask people if they want the authorities to help protect their bank accounts from fraud, keep their family safe from child molesters, keep the towns and cities safe from terrorist threats, rioters and malcontents, and the unequivocal answer will be YES!!!!

Ask them if the authorities can monitor emails, SMS messaging, telephone messages, more CCTV coverage of public places and foreign travel to possibly gain early warnings of possible threats and the answer will be a resounding NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

AsheSkyler

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...Some days I think countries are just the large-scale version of the medieval feudal lords who could do whatever they wanted to their peasants because there was a small chance of them having to answer for their actions.
 

wayback64

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I pretty much optimistic on this. I guess it should have its reason. Like right now, AUS is doing great in my opinion when compared to US. Correct me if I'm wrong please.

read more
 
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Phreaddee

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I pretty much optimistic on this. I guess it should have its reason. Like right now, AUS is doing great in my opinion when compared to US. Correct me if I'm wrong please.

did you read the bill? or at least the links from this thread?

economically we might be doing better.
we had a good prime minister who got the boot, and now the replacement is bending over backwards to get the support of the conservatives, and our opposition is ultra conservative, as a result draconian laws like this one get passed.

I don't see that as progress, nor do I see it as a reason to be optimistic.

whilst I do not know enough about US and policy to make comment, I think you guys will be in a bad place if that romney character gets the presidency...
 

ronaldroe

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I think you guys will be in a bad place if that romney character gets the presidency...

Conservatives here are against bills like those. "Conservative" has a slightly different meaning here. Romney, along with a vast majority of Republicans were all against SOPA. It was the liberals here who were shooting for that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not really a fan of Romney. He has one thing going for him, though: he's not Obama...
 

MrDougJay

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Tell me about it. It's the same in the Philippines. I have people from the Philippines working for me. They are complaining about this stupid law that the senators made. It's called Cyber Crime Law. With this law you can go to jail for 12 years simply by posting, liking, sharing offensive post to the government.
 

AsheSkyler

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I guess the lawmakers don't take their constitution very seriously, eh? Good grief, 12 years even if it's as simple as "the government doesn't know anything about paving roads"? I'd hate to see what they do about real crimes like piracy and hacking.
 

MrDougJay

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Yup, I think it's stupid. 12 years is too much, community service should only be the punishment. Instead of making stupid laws like that, why don't they use the money for making schools, hospitals, roads, jobs, and etc. I'm sure they need these more than that law.
 

ronaldroe

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Yup, I think it's stupid. 12 years is too much, community service should only be the punishment. Instead of making stupid laws like that, why don't they use the money for making schools, hospitals, roads, jobs, and etc. I'm sure they need these more than that law.

This is why people need to quit trusting government to do anything at all.
 

leroy30

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How would they track your keystrokes without planting a key logger in your computer or every website on the web?
 
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