[LINK] Fwd: [PRIVACY] [apfma] AAP: AFP to use DPI to collect email metadata

[Richard]

Grouch the first. The story is old. Then it gets Sky News'd, then it 
does the rounds again.

Nearly a month ago:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/14/australian_federal_police_seeks_deep_packet_inspection_kit/

Grouch the second. The story is deliberate scare-mongering from the AAP 
(it's just a wire piece The Guardian has picked up).

If the AFP buys a couple of DPI appliances, that's no use to them at all 
as a mass surveillance tool. Australia has several large scale Internet 
transit networks (Telstra, Optus, Verizon Business (I think), and a few 
others). You can't somehow put a mysterious piece of kit in an AFP data 
centre and automagically mirror the whole Australian Internet through it.

The AFP has a need to make sure its *own* employees aren't abusing their 
connections ... look, for eg, at how many "abusive / sexist e-mail" 
scandals we've seen in Defence and various police forces in the country.

Nothing to see, move along ...

RC

On 10/12/13 4:13 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> Any way to protect against this?
> Jan
>
>
>> Australian police to adopt technology capable of collecting emails
>> Published: December 10, 2013
>> Source:
>> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/australian-police-to-adopt-technology-capable-of-collecting-emails
>>
>>
>> Controversial new technology capable of collecting and storing emails
>> and other information sent via computer in real time will be rolled out
>> by the Australian Federal Police next year.
>>
>> The agency plans to trial "deep packet inspection" (DPI) technology in
>> February before a full rollout in April.
>>
>> DPI systems are used by many organisations as firewalls but they can
>> also collect information such as email subject headers and message content.
>
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