AU Government Demands Universal Wiretapping

StonyandCher writes "The Australian government is pushing a bill to force all telecommunications providers to facilitate lawful data interception across fixed and mobile telephone systems, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Instant Messaging (IM) and chat room discussions. Sweeping reforms will make it easier than ever for law enforcement to intercept communications if amendments to the Telecommunications (Interceptions) Act are agreed upon by a Senate standing committee. This follows from a story earlier this week where the Australian government is legislating to allow employers to snoop on employees' email and IM conversations."

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I hereby patent Latency Delayed Messaging

[Duradin]

By employing the physical distance between two points and the limit to the speed at which information can be propagated these messages will experience a delay between the time the sender transmits the message and the recipient receives the message.

I also hereby place this patent into the public domain.

I do wish I could figure how they managed instant communications. Blasted C going and ruining my plans.

Re:I hereby patent Latency Delayed Messaging

[Gideon Fubar]

I hear you.. but delayed.

also, why was this modded offtopic?