Aussie Gov't Says Wiretap Laws Fine, Telcos 'Wrong'

mask.of.sanity writes "A top bureaucrat from the Australian Attorney-General's department has said telcos are wrong to complain about changes to the country's wiretapping laws, which will force them to report every product and network system change to law enforcement for approval, lest they affect the ability to intercept communications. The telcos argue there are simply too many products and network architecture changes to report and that it would become overbearing. It's the latest in a string of changes to communications law in the country, and comes as the government mulls data retention and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement."

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Re:Fight Back!

[cbiltcliffe]

It doesn't sound like the gov't is required to request the information. It sounds like the telcos are required to report their all changes to the government for approval.

Very much a "papers please" kind of environment.

So my suggestion would be to overwhelm the government with data.
Give them a stream of every time a user connects and gets an IP address, every time a user changes password, every time a device with a new MAC address shows up on the network, every time it moves, every time it disconnects, every time they change a password on a router, server, whatever (although not what the passwords are)..... you get the picture.

Basically, take every single log that the organization has, run it all through an aggregator into a single file, use some regex trickery to take out any personal information, then add a bunch of junk that normally isn't logged, and fire it off to the government.

While you're at it, write a couple of scripts that change passwords for stuff on a daily basis, according to some preset scheme (passwordNov12 changes to passwordNov13 tomorrow, or the like) and send them all these:

password on device router1 was changed
password on device server1 was changed
password on device router2 was changed

  messages, also. Give them such a horrendously big amount of information to wade through, that they can't possibly use it all. If every ISP in the country did this, the government might actually figure out how stupid this request is.