[LINK] Authorities gain power to collect Australians' internet records

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Thu Aug 23 09:27:16 AEST 2012


You could always run pandora or some other crawler.  If lots of people ran crawlers it would certainly add to the logs.

On 2012/Aug/23, at 9:07 AM, tomk wrote:

> On 23/08/2012 7:04 a.m., Kim Holburn wrote:
>> http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/authorities-gain-power-to-collect-australians--internet-records-20120822-24m03.html
>> 
>>> Laws passed today will allow authorities to collect and keep Australians' internet records, including their web-browsing history, social media activity and emails.
>>> 
>>> Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said the laws would help police track cyber-criminals around the globe, and would give authorities the power to find people engaged in forgery, fraud, child pornography, and infringement of copyright and intellectual property.
>>> 
>>> 
> 
> There are defining moments in any civilisations history.
> 
> For the Romans, it was when they taught the Britons about pointy things.
> For the Germans it was Crystal Nacht
> and for the Australians it was the day the Australian Parliament 
> authorised entry into our innermost thoughts, bedrooms, deeds and 
> desires by allowing our internet activity to be cached and filtered for 
> "cyber crime."
> 
> Mr. Conroy promised the Uniting Church an Internet Filter, and Mr. 
> Conroy has delivered on his promise (albeit a reverse filter, but 
> nevertheless, a filter).
> 
> A dark day for Internet freedom in Australia.
> 
> I foresee a massive resurgence in offline data gathering, PVC's, and 
> onion routing. Now the common man will have to become adept at those 
> specialities that until today were the exclusive activity of those with 
> something to hide.
> You know, the cyber criminals. The folks that won't get caught because 
> they surf under the seventh layer.
> 
> This new legislation unfortunately won't catch any real cyber criminals, 
> but it will dramatically slow down e-commerce, knowledge browsing and 
> social interactions of all thinking persons.
> 
> I for one will now go and remove from my mail lists all persons who's 
> intimate pedigrees I am not one hundred percent sure about. After all, 
> didn't we learn from an earlier empire that guilt by association leads 
> to the same gulag?
> 
> I am sad for an Australia that takes it's directions from Cass Sunstein 
> in the Whitehouse and is unable to remain true to it's pioneering 
> heritage, a wonderful country full of hope, opportunity and promise.
> 
> Yesterday will be remembered by future historians as Australia's Crystal 
> Nacht.
> 
> Tom
> 
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