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Australia Taps More Phones Than Entire U.S.
An anonymous reader writes "Last year Australian authorities tapped more phones all United States authorities combined. Australian phones were tapped at 20 times the rate of phones in the US according to this article in the Sydney Morning herald. The fact was revealed during a debate in the Australian parliament. The government is attempting to pass new legislation to to make it even easier for the country's domestic spy agency ASIO to tap phones." Update: 09/16 14:07 GMT by T : Julian Assange writes "The Australian is also running the story and has better stats." Thanks for the link.
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Just wanted to get those out of the way. Carry on.
They're welcome to our line. I admire anyone that could stand more than 5 minutes of listening to the crap that my sister speaks about all day long on the phone.
Silly. What did you think seti was for?
To spy ET phone home..
especially telling.
Guess that explains everything. The crooks, labor organizers, and opposition, have mastered the "sophistication" of the telephone.
Anybody can work under ideal circumstances. -- Jeff K. (January 4, 2001)
Last night I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep when I thought I heard a strange noise coming from the bathroom.
Knowing that I wouldn't be able to doze off until the mystery was solved, I hauled by sad ass out of bed and stumbled down the hall to the "little room"
At first I thought it must just be tinnitus because the sound was really indistinct and seemed to be coming from multiple directions at once.
After a few minutes walking around the bathroom with my hands cupped to my ears I finally traced the source of the noise to the basin.
Yes, those bastard law-enforcement officials -- they'd phoned my tap!
so ggod in living in a developing country .. our phones dont work half of the time whew ;-)
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Let's see, we have:
On the other hand we also have
Hmm, depends who the politicians pick to interview them...
Hmmm. I don't think I would call Johnny Vaughan, Richard and Judy or Ali G news journalists.
Mind you, I remember Ali G asking Edward Heath if she ever fancied giving Thatcher a quickie, which is a pretty tough question...
Actually, Australia's constitution came into effect on 1 Jan 1901 - the day we federated. So it was quite a significant day. It established and defined the relationship between the all states. It took a long time to develop - and was done by a group of clear-thinking, diverse people in a fiery debate - where no one got killed.
(People often walked out, but no one got killed. And the process went for years) until finally the fiction that is the Australian constitution was born. Somehow, we managed to develop a Clayton's monarchy, (the monarchy you have when you're not having a monarchy).
And now lots of people want to change the constitution - because of this very clever fiction. But I'm sure in the process they'll remove a lot of the freedoms that are currently afforded to Australian's if they are allowed to change it one iota. Then we won't be able to walk down the street with the right to be free from fear of drive-by shootings and there will proabably be more allowances and less restrictions phone tappings by incompetent organisations like ASIO.
If ASIO were so good at tapping phones, how come the newspaper knows about it? Is it just me, or is the real story - we know about more Aussies having their phones tapped than we know about American phones being tapped?
Now the CIA, there's an agency that really knows where its towel is (and how to keep its phone-tapping under wraps).
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that's nothing. in america we spent over $30 million investigating one guy over a land deal and ended up barely being able to prove that he lied to people that he had an affair - and that was just because a private citizen illegally recorded some phone conversations.
as usual we americans are better at everything - including abusing civil liberties. so there.
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'twas 70 million plus, actually.
But it bought us Bush II ! I'm sure the House managers thought it other people's money well spent.
What do you mean... it protected the Franklin River, didn't it? :P
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Have you seen The Castle? It protected those guys too - it's the vibe of the thing - really!
It's not a bad old bird, really - and it allows changes as is appropriate, rather than being a document spawned in a civil war with no room to grow... It ain't perfect - but it ain't bad either.
(I'm having fun, but not trolling
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