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NSW Police Named as FinFisher Spyware Users
Bismillah writes Wikileaks' latest release of documents shows that the Australian New South Wales police force has spent millions on licenses for the FinFisher set of law enforcement spy- and malware tools — and still has active licenses. What it uses FinFisher, which has been deployed against dissidents by oppressive regimes, for is yet to be revealed. NSW Police spokesperson John Thompson said it would not be appropriate to comment "given this technology relates to operational capability".
You'd expect they're using it as part of their day to day jobs to help keep people safe.
Here in Australia we don't fear our police - they have a strong history of generally doing the right thing by the people they serve.
Let me fix that for you:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=NSW+police+brutality
Ta.
You.
...the guards!
In the past NSW had a bad reputation for "verballing" suspects where a copper merely had to allege a statement by a suspect to have that allegation accepted by the courts.
NSW police arrest SWF for NSFW behavior. Lurid film at 11.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
"What it uses FinFisher, which has been deployed against dissidents by oppressive regimes, for "
Who writes like that? Jesus Christ... Surely any idiot would have written "What is uses FinFisher for, which has..."
How does your mind work?
There are a lot of Muslims in Australia, and it makes sense to keep an eye on them as a lot of them support terrorism
See what happens when you let the government take your guns?
Now their only real value is as an example of a warning to others.
Kind of like a ship scuttled on a reef.
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I seems like a return to the bad old days of corrupt NSW Police practices.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Australia is a nanny state, no surprise
Your government is using it, and software like it, against you every day, and you still have your guns.
Australian cops are *dirty*
NSW!
Good cop, bad cop: how corrupt police work with drug dealers http://theconversation.com/goo...
Corruption is endemic within Australia's police agencies, and certainly within the Australian Federal Police and New South Wales Police, which between them cover the Sydney airports. It also embraces crime commissions and other institutions charged with responsibility for police governance on behalf of the public. http://www.expendable.tv/2011/...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
Pressure grows for NSW police inquiry
Posted 8 Oct 2012, 7:18pmMon 8 Oct 2012, 7:18pm
Up to 200 police officers may have been spied on with listening devices and telephone intercepts.
VICTORIA!
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
Victorian police corrupt: ex-judge The Australian
VICTORIA'S police force is riddled with "deep-seated and continuing corruption" that will only be flushed out by a powerful and wide-ranging royal commission. Don Stewart, one of the nation's most respected judicial figures, says Victoria Police and the Bracks Labor Government oppose a royal commission because they do not want the extent of corruption within the force made public. "They know that it would reveal what they don't want revealed," says the former Supreme Court judge and founding head of Australia's first national crime agency. Dismissing arguments that dirty police are already being driven out of the force through the courts, he says the recent convictions of senior Victorian officers on corruption charges are "the tip of the iceberg". "The arrest of some corrupt police only proves that corruption is deep-seated and continuing," Mr Stewart says in a book to be published in March.
CANBERRA!
http://www.canberratimes.com.a...
A long history of police corruption. In 1990 the AFP officer Michael Anthony Wallace was convicted of stealing $20 million worth of drugs and cash exhibits. In 1995 Standen's colleague, Alan Taciak, rolled over in the NSW Police royal commission and alleged 78 AFP officers - 15 per cent of the force - were corrupt. Taciak's allegations sparked the Harrison inquiry in 1996. Its final report, which is understood to have alleged widespread corruption in the AFP, has also not been released. The head of the inquiry, Ian Harrison, now a Supreme Court judge, said many agents escaped investigation by quitting the AFP. In 2001 Standen's former boss at the Sydney drugs unit, Cliff Foster, committed suicide while under investigation over corruption.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA!
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/...
DARWIN!
http://www.abc.net.au/local/st...
NT police oppose anti-corruption tests. The Northern Territory Police Association says it will oppose Federal Government plans to secretly test officers' integrity as part of new anti-corruption measures.
QUEENSLAND!
Queensland police misconduct files reveal corruption, favouritism, sexual misconduct
Yup, gun control is the death of privacy! Oh...right, the NSA. Also, very loose restrictions on a class of objects that are designed to kill and hurt sounds reasonable to me, what about you? Not to mention that controlling the ownership of guns reduces violent crime etc.
NSW Police spokesperson John Thompson said it would not be appropriate to comment "given this technology relates to operational capability".
Indeed. The newfound ability to do very bad things always relates to operational capability.
Guns have nothing to do with this.
Even if the 'gubment' lets you keep your guns, what chance to you think you stand against MRAPs, ricket launchers, gun ships and pretty much everything else the military (or even your local friendly SWAT team) can throw at you? Good luck defending yourself against the government with the feable material you have!
Does it begin to dawn upon you now that you being allowed to keep a hand gun or riffle means NOTHING?
we hackers have those tools now too....teehee
Here?? At work?!?! Quick! TOR the pr0n! TrueCrypt the mp3s!
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
See what happens when you let the government take your guns?
You still have you guns. The government still screws you over. Much good that did.
In all fairness, the Romes did get those guys to relinquish power, it just usually it was sort of a bumpy transition. :-p
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Want to download and examine FinFisher yourself? https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles...
In Australia aren't the people allowed to know what their police force's "operational capability" is?
Let em launch all the rickets they want at me, I have plenty of vitamin D
I'll also point out that if they're dealing with a single armed house...no big deal. If they're dealing with thousands upon thousands of them, things change.
It depends on how the product was crafted per person.
On some consumer OS versions all you have to do is get under the consumer grade antivirus by not having to use in the wild malware thats been found.
That product has to avoid consumer grade antivirus behavior analysis, cosumer software firewalls over days and get the data out.
The 'out' part can be just as fun. A waiting consumer computer that looks like any other home computer in an empty home at the end of a city street with rental phone company records to match.
As for Linux http://www.theguardian.com/tec... (16 September 2014)
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
has the line " can infect Apple OS X, Windows and Linux computers as well as Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Phone devices."
The issue is consumer grade antivirus has to have something to find and report back on. If the software is crafted per person and then removed in a short time that consumer grade antivirus option will never be a factor.
The other option is just to go for the keyboard or other cell phone input layer on the active cell device. A user can then encrypt, hide ip all they want at a software or higher hardware level but every keystroke is collected.
With a correct password any later software alterations would be part of the next expected, correct Linux checksums. The keyboard logger would not even have to use any internet network, it could just go very short range wireless avoiding all software/hardware packet sniffers efforts.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Think of it in Cold War terms.
Communist using the under the cover of workers rights, trying law reform, Vietnam war protests or other national or State issues.
That would need a close working relationship between national and state gov staff, local police. To find the foreign aspect and have real locals watching every public meeting or protest and befriend the group or person.
The operational capability of hardware and software once in the hands of the mil or national gov due to buying and running costs is now at a much lower level.
Consumer culture also allows for people to be much for relaxed around computers and other cellular devices. The cell phone is on, mic is active and stays on as two people meet face to face.
No more plain old telephone service recording, tracking beacon in the car and hope to have enough local staff to be in position for that face to face meeting if the car is not used.
The only change is the total cost of tracking below the federal level and quality of audio or images.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Thanks!
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Yeah, but they're not going to DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, because of the guns.
Aus on the other hand is going to be monitored for online infractions, just anything that pisses their gov. off, and pay penalties.
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But the NSA isn't going to drag me to court for every free expression that I loose or any file I download. If you hadn't noticed , the less guns are controlled , the less violent crime we have. Dumbass.
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Yes, they do.
The government isn't going to turn the military against civilians or they WILL have every shotgun, handgun, lynchmob aimed directly at their personal lives.
It WILL be revolt then. SWAT will be hopelessly outnumbered along with the rest of the cops. Did it ever dawn on you that you live in a fantasy world?
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Our government screws us within the limits we allow. Australian slaves have no say, with no guns.
I notice all my replys are from cowards. I think that makes my point.
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