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New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia

Posted by Soulskill on from the because-why-continue-a-good-thing dept.

cold fjord writes "Indonesia is threatening to cease cooperation with Australia on human smuggling as a result of further Snowden leaks published by the Guardian and other papers over the weekend. The leaks involve reported use of Australian embassies across Asia for signals intelligence as well as reports of intelligence operations by Australia and the U.S. in 2007 at the U.N. climate change conference in Bali. (In 2002 a terrorist attack at the Sari club in Bali killed 240 people, including 88 Australians.) As a result of the revelations, various groups are reportedly taking revenge, including claimed or alleged involvement of the Java Cyber Army, members of Anonymous in Indonesia, and possibly other hacker groups. They are attacking hundreds of Australian websites. Among the reported victims are Queensland hospital, a children's cancer association an anti-slavery charity, and many more."

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  1. Not the leaks by Hatta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not the leaks that threaten these talks. It's the espionage that threatens the talks.

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    1. Re:Not the leaks by intermodal · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's the clear strategy of the governments involved to blame the leaks for causing the problems. Failure to give the government a pass on the grounds that it "should have remained secret" makes you a terrorist.

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    2. Re:Not the leaks by Desler · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, it's clearly the new of the leaks that did it. Last week there wasn't a diplomatic crisis, then the leaks came, and now there is a diplomatic crisis.

      Quiet diplomacy is only possible when confidentiality is possible.

      This just in: mass surveillance of your "allies" pisses them off!

      There will probably be more human smuggling and trafficking due to Snowden.

      Hahaha! Good old cold fjord. Yeah, it wasn't the fault of the people doing the spying it was Snowden's!! Yeah just like it was the fault of the woman being raped because she wasn't dressed in a burqa not that of the rapist, right?

    3. Re: Not the leaks by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The Disease is the PATRIOT act. and none of you are demanding to your congress critter to repeal it. Or telling everyone you know how it's what allows them to do this and more and getting other riles up about PATRIOT.

      That is the answer to fix all of it. Yet everyone here wants to piss in the same bowl of cheerios instead of actually doing anything.

      Get off your asses, spread the word and start writing letters.

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  2. Re:Headline fail. by sd4f · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's basically why Indonesia isn't liking what's happening. The people smuggling trade brings a lot of money into Indonesia; buying boats, bribing police and officials. Cutting it off is going to annoy quite a lot of people.