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Australia Taps More Phones Than Entire U.S.

Posted by timothy on from the speak-up-mate dept.

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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  1. FIRST ASSFUCK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I spread for you alone.

    Claimed for NAMBLA and Jon Katz.

  2. Big Cobber? by alnapp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1984X?

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  3. Holy Shnike! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why the fuck was Slashdot so slow for almost all of the last twelve hours?

    Did the peer to peer linux worm get used to DOS it? Or was it just another MySQL freakout since we all know that the only reason Slashdot still uses it is because the devs are too stuborn to change to any of the three open-sourced alternatives that are superior to it..?

  4. Even theo now uses Solaris. Openbsd is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Look here. Just give up on bsd. It really is dead and the proof is in the pudding.

    1. Re:Even theo now uses Solaris. Openbsd is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Look here [netcraft.com]. Just give up on bsd. It really is dead and the proof is in the pudding.

      No, he doesn't. He doesn't personally host openbsd.org. This is in the FAQ.

      If you're going to fucking troll, try and get it right.

  5. Re:Aren't Australians All Descended From Criminals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's new line:

    Yeah, it's a much more civilized place... for me to fuck sheep in.

  6. New business-model? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1: Write free software.
    2: ?
    3: Tap phones.
    4: Profit!

  7. Re:being tapped by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WHy are you using a socialist OS? Have you attended or visited any terrorist related hacker or 2600 related websites? You are either with us or the terrorists. You have decided your move and you must live with it.

  8. Re:About America... by Zeio · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I re-read your comment. I dont know why I responsed to you in that fashion. I was probably meaning to go anon on another comment.

    Anyways, totalitarians and lack of du process are indeed scary.

    Cheers, sorry about the mishap.

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