IP: A bit more on ASIO cleared to hack into computers

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 07:23:41 +1000 (EST)
>From: Katherine Phelps <muse@glasswings.com.au>
>To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>
>On 26-Mar-99 Dave Farber wrote:
>>>http://www.smh.com.au/news/9903/26/pageone/pageone3.html
>>>Friday, March 26, 1999
>>>ASIO cleared to hack into computers
>>>By BERNARD LAGAN and BEN POWER 
>
>Sadly, our current government in Australia is keen to emulate the US during the
>Reagan years. We do have Electronic Frontier Australia working, often
>successfully, to put to rout these things. I don't think the addition to ASIO's
>powers has been finalised, since it must go through both houses and I think may
>have only been a proposed change by the standing government. Your report made
>the thing out to be a done deal.
>
>Fortunately, one thing people from the US don't understand about this country,
>is that its inhabitants don't take parliament all that seriously. If the police
>don't like a law, they don't enforce it, and I've sat in a court room and
>listened to a judge consciously ignore certain laws and judge according to what
>he thought was fair, and nobody questioned it. Of course the defendant could
>have appealed the decision to be prosecuted, but do you think a defendant would?
>
>Regards,
>
>Katherine
>
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