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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