[LINK] ZDNet: Senate passes net interception Bill

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:35 AM 3/02/2010, James Collins wrote:
>  I.e.: If
>you see something you shouldn't while monitoring the network, you just keep
>it to yourself, you don't blab it to everyone in town and you don't "take it
>on board".

This reminds me of a story on Melbourne morning ABC radio yesterday. 
A women on the 3 network started getting emails from all sorts of 
people, only they weren't to her. She tried her best to get someone 
to pay attention because of the confidential nature of some of the 
information. One message included a phone number of someone in the 
message flow, in a Federal department in Canberra, so she called it. 
She told the woman what was going on and found out that the person 
who was to receive the message had received it as well, so it wasn't 
a redirect.

Then another person called in to tell how she bought a smartphone and 
within hours, when no one else had the number other than trusted 
friends and work people, she received a video of a man -- well, doing 
what women can't do because they don't have the body parts. She 
reported it to the same network 3, who suggested she call the police, 
which she did, but of course the cops did nothing. She said she just 
finished paying out the 2yr contract but never used the phone after 
that incident.

My guess would have been a random attack, but I have no idea if this 
is prevalent.

Anyway, there are lots of new behaviours that need to be considered. 
Maybe this interception bill will help, IF the networks make the link 
between customers who have problems and the staff who can help them. 
If it's a dumb call centre, which one of the above described, can't 
recall which, there's no reason for the legislation.

Jan
PS: as I was finishing this, I got my second spam skype in two days 
wanting to sell me something. This one was a diploma mill. At least 
Skype has a immediate block and report process in place.


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