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. > > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia > [email protected] > > Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how > do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. > ~Margaret Atwood, writer > > _ __________________ _ > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
