[LINK] Tasmanians to be forced to connect to NBN under new laws

[Ben McGinnes]

On 8/10/10 9:23 PM, Max Devlin wrote:
> On 08/10/2010, Ben McGinnes <ben at adversary.org> wrote:
>
> Imagine the furor if the Government ordered Telstra to record all
> calls. Stricly for Police use only. One thing that concerns me about
> the rush to build the NBN is what LE intercept hooks might be in
> it. WI-FI LEI in every router for listening from the comfort of
> their desks FBI style? The copper network offers some privacy
> because Mr Plod and 13 yo Mitnick wanna be's need physical
> access. But not with Skype or Netphone. So should we trust Herr
> Government?

It'd be done the same way than phone intercepts are done now.  Contact
the relevant provider (in this case for layer 3) and replicate the
port or ports.  Get a dump of all traffic passing through it and sift
it for the interesting bits.

> Might we end finding more bugs than a US Moscow embassy in our
> fibre?

Nice reference, perhaps more like the Chinese Canberra embassy.  ;)

>> Or maybe that's the antihistamines making me a bit spacey.
> 
> Sudafed or Codral? :-)

Ha!  :)

No, actually 25mg Phenergan.  The kind with huge warnings saying not
to operate heavy machinery.


Regards,
Ben

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