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Author Topic: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...  (Read 599 times)

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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...
« on: June 17, 2010, 03:49:59 PM »
This is the kind of stuff the government wants desperately to do.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/web-snooping-policy-shrouded-in-secrecy-20100617-yi1u.html

It is akin to practices in politically backward nations, and it's coming to Australia.
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Re: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2010, 03:54:16 PM »
Easy way around this, internet cafes...
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Re: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2010, 04:07:42 PM »
Better start one now then. There'll be about 1.5 million customers signing up shortly.
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Re: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2010, 06:56:15 PM »
Companies are liable for email sent by their employees and as such have to keep some kind of record. Besides, being private concerns, they can do pretty much what they want with their own data. The government want to track ALL your internet habits, whether it is via your personal mobile phone, your home PC or anywhere else you may connect to the internets.
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Re: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2010, 09:30:37 PM »
They do not try and detect anything (like porn), everything is captured. And you're wrong about SMS. It is all saved. In fact, that is exactly how the Cronullla riot instigators were caught.
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Re: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2010, 09:38:54 PM »
Pretty sure i read a newspaper article a while ago (no it wasn't the HS) that said something along the lines of "Mobile Phone providers and ISP do not have the capacity to store every single SMS/MMS sent" and that they may save SOME of them for a short period of time, say, 12 hours or something, then they are deleted from their server. I'll try google the article though not now as I'm doing exam stuff. And werent the cronulla people caught as someone sent the messages to the police??
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Re: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2010, 09:52:55 PM »
Trust me. Storing 500,000,000 sms messages a day is kids stuff. It diesn't even take up that much space.
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