What better way for chairman bob to scan for immigrants to the Sydney autonomous basin than the new australia carrd?
E-mail bob with all your details...he'll have them soon anyway.
ALL HAIL THE GREAT HELMSMAN!
The australia card was proposed by Hawke and Hayden was the most gung ho Gestapo boss ever and the SheRATon raid happened on his watch.Labor is the danger,more than al Kada.
Digimarc ID Systems to Play Key Role in Hong Kong Smart Identity Card Contract
Hong Kong government awards contract to multi-national consortium made up of nine companies, including Digimarc ID Systems
BEDFORD, Mass. April 17, 2002 - Digimarc ID Systems LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Digimarc Corp. (NASDAQ: DMRC), announced today that it is part of a consortium of companies that was awarded a contract last quarter from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Government for the implementation of Hong Kongs Smart Identity Card System (SMARTICS).
The consortium is being led by PCCW Business e-Solutions Ltd., a subsidiary of Pacific Century CyberWorks (SEHK: 0008, ADR-NYSE: PCW). The system is expected to supply 1.2 million cards for Hong Kongs Immigration Department.
As part of the contract, Digimarc ID Systems will supply hardware and software for the capture of Hong Kong residents portraits. During the first phase of the project, the Immigration Department will install 311 capture stations in various locations around Hong Kong. The data capture workstations contain a new generation of image capture technology, including software that automates many data input steps and automatically aims, zooms, crops and centers face images for consistent high quality photographs and placement on identity documents.
The speed of applicant processing and the clarity and quality of the images were essential elements to the consortium's success in winning this contract, said John Munday, president, Digimarc ID Systems.We are very pleased to work with PCCW and the government of Hong Kong and to be a key part of an identity system that will be one of the most technically advanced in the world.
The Hong Kong installation is Digimarc ID Systems fourth digital national ID system in Asia. The contract for the smart identity card program was awarded after a competitive bid process. A total of 11 multi-national consortia competed for the program.
The PCCW-led consortium consists of nine companies from Hong Kong, Switzerland, the U.S., Australia, Singapore and the U.K. with collective experience providing security and related technology systems to tens of millions of security and credit cards, as well as services to governments and large corporations.
http://www.digimarc.com/news/release.asp?id=263
How is ziggy still running telstra after teaming up with this ronald mc donald,richard Li? Beats me.
The implications of the construction of firewalls to prevent Chinese people from accessing forbidden materials on sites outside the country are well known. Many of the technologies used in these areas of computer security, however, could also be employed to restrict human rights and democracy through intimidation and systematic surveillance of the population.
The MPS announced last year that within three years it would have created a nationwide computerized database containing personal details and ID numbers for every adult in the country. In the past the Chinese government has kept a cumulative file (called the dangan) on every individual�??s performance and attitudes from kindergarten, and throughout adult employment. This information will now be digitized and Chinese citizens will be issued new, second-generation identification cards that will contain their dangan on an embedded microchip. Currently, Chinese ID cards consist of a laminated paper card featuring a person�??s name, photo, birthday and ID number. This paper card "is relatively easy to counterfeit," said Qiu Xuexin, Director of the No. 1 Research Institute under the MPS, (43) speaking recently at the Fourth International Fair of Smart Cards. Qiu added that by using sophisticated encryption it will be more difficult for unauthorized people to access government information in the new card. The second generation smart card is likely to be a "proximity card" in other words it can be scanned instantly, from several feet away, without the subject necessarily being aware that he or she is being identified.
http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/globalization/goldenShieldEng.html
No more,"your papers citizen," at least
Who is helping bring these chickens home to roost...
SecureNet Offices
For further information please contact SecureNet Limited at one of the following locations:
Melbourne
Level 18, 60 Albert Road
South Melbourne
Victoria 3205
Australia
Tel: 61 3 8696 9400
Fax: 61 3 8696 9500
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sydney
SecureNet Limited
Level 4, 33 Saunders Street
Pyrmont
NSW 2009
Australia
Tel: 61 2 8514 7300
Fax: 61 2 8514 7301
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Canberra
Level 3, 243 Northbourne Avenue
Lyneham
ACT 2602
Australia
Tel: 61 2 6268 9222
Fax: 61 2 6268 9233
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Support
Tel: 61 2 8514 7777
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.securenet.com.au/resources/p_resources.asp?navid=106
Also the great helmsman and friend of henry kissinger...
The Hon. Robert John CARR, MP.
... Parade Maroubra NSW 2035. Phone: (02) 9349 6440 Fax: (02) 9349 4594
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ministerial Office Address: Level ...
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/.../acc182be7a6d1b6c4a2565ad001234d5/ 41bee69c23651b434a25674500016550?OpenDocument - 8k - 24 Nov 2002 - Cached - Similar pages
What better way for bob to scan for immigrants to the Sydney autonomous basin than the new australia carrd?
E-mail bob with all your details...he'll have them soon anyway.
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=37333&group=webcast
Tony Abbott,the cisco kid.
The Golden Shield projects been going for a couple of years now and there have been remarkably few complaints.
Tony might have been taking notes and the new head of ASIS is fresh from China.
Cisco Systems is another example, having provided a large proportion of the routers and firewalls in China�s network. At Security China 2000 a saleswoman for the computer-network giant Cisco Systems told the group of PSB officials that her company was the world leader in firewalls, and that "China is a large potential market for this kind of technology." [50]
http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/globalization/goldenShieldEng.html
B E I J I N G, Nov. 8 Seeing gold in Chinese efforts to police the free-ranging Internet, foreign companies are rushing to sell Beijing the latest in law enforcement technology from tiny cameras to code-breaking software.
At a trade show in Beijing today, some of the biggest names in Web technology companies that proudly attach themselves overseas to the Internet�s reputation for anarchy peddled their wares to crowds of police and security officials.
A saleswoman for computer-network giant Cisco Systems Inc. told men in dark blue police uniforms that her company was the world leader in fire walls protecting electronic data.
China is a large potential market for this kind of technology,saleswoman Julia Ho said.
China�s communist leaders have approached the exploding popularity of the Internet with ambivalence.
Must Meet Government Approval
They are keen to use the Web for education and business while trying to smother its potential to spread political dissent. Just Tuesday, new rules were issued barring Internet sites from offering news not approved by the government.
In comments released today, the State Council Information Office, the Cabinet-level agency that will enforce the rules, explained the measures were needed to crack down on sham news reports and rumors misleading the masses, confusing public opinion and creating chaos.
The demands of policing China�s nearly 17 million Web users have caught the interest of overseas companies who want to sell software to break coded messages and track users.
It�s a very attractive area, said Duncan Clark of BDA China Ltd., a media and Internet consulting firm in Beijing. Foreign vendors want to sell to public security people.
Fully a quarter of the approximately 50 Chinese and foreign vendors gathered at the Security China 2000 trade show focused their efforts on the Golden Shield Project, Beijing�s ambitious plan to build a nationwide computer network linking national and local police agencies.
Monetary Figures Rising
Though the project is still in its infancy, Chinese industry executives at the trade fair said the government has already spent 600 million yuan ($70 million) on research, and the total spending could run many times that.
Beijing envisions the Golden Shield as part database and part remote surveillance system.
One feature is quick access to registration records on every citizen in China, while links to networks of small cameras in public places will cut police reaction times to demonstrations and other signs of trouble.
U.S. companies like Cisco and Sun Microsystems and Canada�s Nortel Networks offered the fire walls, initially developed to protect corporate computer systems from hackers and viruses, saying they could also shield police networks.
Some executives admitted that the systems are powerful enough to sift through millions of electronic messages for key words that Beijing might find politically offensive.
Cyber Spying
China already uses such devices to block Web surfers from viewing foreign news sites and those set up by exiled democracy campaigners and the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.
Word in the industry is that Beijing wants to expand the capabilities of what hackers derisively call the Great Fire Wall of China.
Government-owned Shenzhen Siyue Information System Co. has a software tailor-made for the police�s concerns. Company president Yuan Quan maneuvered a computer mouse over an icon marked foreigners to click on another labeled Falun Gong.
Up popped a list of names and photographs. Fingerprints can be added, Yuan said.
'You can store all sorts of information on criminals in here,'Yuan said. 'Anything you need to keep an eye on them.'
END
Tonies keeping on eye on things with cisco...
"..."The Department adopted Cisco�s AVVID architecture over a year ago so that we could keep adding multimedia applications to the infrastructure over time," said Mr Ian Rose, Director Communications & IT Security, DEWRSB.
The Department has more than 30 offices and 2,500 staff in each state and territory, with national headquarters in Canberra. It works to support and assist employees and small businesses, as well as managing the extensive Job Search service.
�As the new network is introduced, it will not matter if staff are in Geraldton, Western Australia, or in Cairns, Queensland, they will be able to participate in video conferences with desktop video conferencing units, and access high quality video on demand,� Mr Rose said.
DEWRSB will use the network�s new multicasting capabilities to distribute induction videos, training videos and relevant footage from the House of Representatives. It will also broadcast the Department�s multimedia magazine.
The Cisco ECDN consists of a Cisco Content Distribution Manager in the national office and Cisco Content Engines at each office. The Cisco IP/TV solution comprises Cisco IP/TV Control servers, Broadcast servers and Archive servers. Video conferencing is enabled by Cisco Multipoint Control Units, and Cisco IP/VC Gateways to interface legacy videoconferencing systems. Polycom endpoints were selected by DEWRSB.
"Cisco�s solution has provided the network scalability for the Department to offer these IP-based applications," Mr Walsh said. "AVVID is an end-to-end solution - applications that require managed bandwidth and quality of service (QoS) can be supported from their headquarters to regional offices."
About DEWRSB
The Commonwealth Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business aims to support strong employment growth and the improved productive performance of enterprises in Australia. The department does this by directing its energies towards achieving four interrelated Government outcomes that are relevant to all Australians: an efficient and equitable labour market that links people to jobs and promotes the transition from welfare to work fair and flexible workplace relations at the enterprise level an improved operating environment for small business on-line access to government information and services relating to employment and business.
See www.dewrsb.gov.au for further information.
FROM
http://www.cisco.com.au/au_com_cisco/article/display/0,,ART145_ATT5_CHA4_USE1,00.html
(Tony Abbott is the Minister of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business and a minor league asshole.)
